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Even as US President Donald Trump appears to have backtracked from the policy separating would-be migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, one would have to wonder if the policy has not created a whole…
To Filipinos of a certain generation, the subject is better known as “GMRC,” for Good Manners and Right Conduct. I don’t know what happened in the decades since this was established as part of the public school…
Anecdotal evidence, including letters to the editor, tells a too-familiar story of scenes at drug store counters. After handing the sales person a doctor’s prescription and hearing the amount involved, the customer blanches at the total cited.…
Adding my own views to the cacophony of voices raised over “The Kiss,” the onstage lip-locking of President Duterte and a Filipina during a gathering of migrant Filipinos in Korea. Glimpsing videos and still shots of the…
With classes in public and private schools opening next week, families once more face the specter of education-related expenses ranging from the rising prices of books and school materials, increased tuition charged by private institutions, and additional…
The “creative presentation” by the Anak Teatro ng Culiat, a children’s theater group, was foreseen to be traumatic for some members of the audience that organizers prepared debriefing services at the venue. The occasion was the official…
He was a priest who “smelled like his sheep,” meaning that he chose to live with and among the faithful, sharing every problem, hardship, joy and celebration such that he was indistinguishable from his “sheep” and began…
Her mother and most everybody else call her “Baby Doll,” although in typical Pinoy fashion, this nickname has been shortened to “Bidal.” When I asked exactly how Sittie Nur Dayhanna Saruang Mohamad got the moniker “Baby Doll,”…
It was the silence “heard” around the world. After reciting the names of her friends and schoolmates who died in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Emma González then lapsed into silence, a silence…
I did not start this trouble,” declared Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno before a gathering of supporters at the University of the Philippines yesterday. “As I said last week, why don’t they want to finish this? I…
There is a scene, recalled only on reflection in the movie “The Post,” but told more completely by Katharine Graham in her memoir “Personal History,” which took place on the morning Graham was to meet with the…
No, Harry Roque, what your President and his official family have done to Pia Ranada (and her boss, Maria Ressa) of Rappler is not just like being “a home owner who wants a rude visitor out of…
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