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Are our big business conglomerates widening the gap between rich and poor Filipinos? While big business empires in rich countries seem to have fostered growing economic concentration and widened inequality, the outcome need not be inevitable. But…
There is a funny meme being passed around which shows a revised version of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Instead of food and water, a new level was added to the bottom labeled “AIRCON”—suggesting that it is now…
The story is told about two sisters who had a deep and long quarrel. When the old one got very sick, the younger one visited her, and they embraced each other in peace and reconciliation. A happy…
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” This phrase stands as a bitter testament to how we see and treat one of society’s most crucial pillars—our educators. How can we see to it that teachers would…
I have always wondered why there is no major war museum in Manila, no peace museum in a city that has often been described as the second most devastated city of World War II after Warsaw. The…
We reached a point in our graduate psychotherapy class when we learned about social justice therapy. I have been looking forward to this module as I finally had the space to reintroduce it after three years of…
Our country’s top executive and legislative officials are unleashing their superpowers to bring to justice Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. who was denounced by Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla as one of the alleged masterminds in…
The happiest moment for us when we were growing up was when Mama would alight from the bus in the afternoon, coming from the barrio school where she was teaching. I and my siblings would all run…
The new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey report—“47% agree it is dangerous to publish things critical of the administration; 27% are undecided, 26% disagree” (www.sws.org.ph, 5/9/23)—is meant, not for Mother’s Day tomorrow, but for World Press Freedom…
Reading history is an experience in armchair time travel. Going back to a distant past through texts, images, and artifacts is recommended because unlike time travel in sci-fi films, we need not be trapped in there. If…
I must confess, I am not an early adopter of technology. This quirk of mine has saved me from headaches. I refuse to install TikTok on my phone and would delete my Facebook if I could. Cryptocurrencies…
Had Andres Bonifacio died of old age or natural causes on May 10, 1897, the date would not be controversial. However, May 10, 1897, reminds us of the split within the leadership of the Philippine revolution that…
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