Duterte

US President Joe Biden said that democracy is under assault. I agree. No, I entirely agree with him that democracy is under attack, not primarily from extremist or populist elements, although they present a credible threat to democracy. I am talking about them — the United States. You see, the…

From the city’s outskirts to the countryside’s plantations, the nation’s resilience has been consistently tested by the wicked’s plague of horrors. To this day, the war on drugs in the country is still being waged. Filipino farmers struggle with massive losses due to the landmark rice tariffication law. At the…

I am to the Philippine drug situation what an audience member is to a feature film displayed on a cinema screen: I watch everything unfold before my eyes, yet I do not play a part in the show before me. I am not a dealer of illegal drugs, a user…

As I puzzle over the question of how, out of 209 million adult Americans, Donald Trump became the one elevated to the status of visionary leader and vanquishing hero for tens of millions of his followers, it strikes me that it is his very vacuity, his very emptiness that permits…

The current administration’s economic team spent the most time boasting about four years of infrastructural accomplishments at its recent pre-SONA forum. On the other hand, little was spoken about the government’s intentions for economic recovery from the pandemic’s severe economic catastrophe. …