Warning: Lacson

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 08/10/2021

  Sen. Ping Lacson ran for president in 2004, and lost badly. He received about 3.5 million votes, some 10 percent of all votes cast, placing a distant third. In the eyes of some, he cost movie…

Warning: Trillanes

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 08/03/2021

  After another round of sniping at Vice President Leni Robredo last week, former senator Sonny Trillanes issued a lengthy explanation yesterday. The statement is a significant walking-back of his supporters’ more aggressive comments, but it still…

P-Noy and the media

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 06/29/2021

It is not true that the second President Aquino never got his due. Before President Duterte reached new records in satisfaction or approval ratings, Noynoy Aquino was the most popular president since regular surveys began. In fact,…

Leni and the power to convene

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 06/22/2021

With the political class now focused on next year’s elections, it is even more important for us as voters and as citizens to distinguish signal from noise. We are hearing a lot from allies of President Duterte…

What will Manny Pacquiao do now?

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 06/01/2021

With all the maneuvering for next year’s elections, the cracks in the Duterte governing coalition are widening. Consider the situation of Sen. Manny Pacquiao. The boxing all-time great is a middling politician of mediocre achievement, but he…

Who protects the lawyers?

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 03/09/2021

The attempt on the life of lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen in Iloilo City on March 3 was particularly brutal: He was stabbed with a screwdriver in the head and in other parts of his body, and when…

Power struggle in Congress

John Nery - @jnery_newsstand 10/13/2020

We can be morally indignant at the power struggle in the House of Representatives, happening out in the open in the middle of a pandemic that the government has barely contained. We can be coldly analytical about…

Death and Duterte

John Nery 10/10/2017

The drop in President Duterte’s satisfaction ratings was almost across the board — except in Mindanao, and in the ABC socioeconomic demographic. I must emphasize one fact: Despite the falling numbers, the President continues to enjoy majority…

Shepherds, your sheep are being slaughtered

John Nery 08/29/2017

I sympathize with the Archbishop of Manila, whom I esteem greatly, and the other Catholic bishops who are struggling with the consequences of President Duterte’s brutal war. Their continuing attempt to see the complete picture of the…

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