Opinion

Airports are built on systems—queues, protocols, and equal access.Except when they aren’t. In one terminal, seasoned travelers began noticing a curious pattern: passengers requesting wheelchair...

By Robert B. Roque Jr. There is nothing novel about enforcing order in the streets. What is new? Senator Robin Padilla is one of the names...

Forget policy papers. Forget press briefings. Behind the scenes, it’s poker night. As public outrage brews over flood control controversies and the drumbeat for impeachment grows...

By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Thank you, Mr. President. Not only did you suspend the excise tax on kerosene and LPG (or cooking gas) this...

By Robert B. Roque, Jr. There is nothing novel about enforcing order in the streets. What is new these days is the renewed posturing by...

By Hafid Abbas, Visiting Professor at Asia Center, Harvard University, 2006 In today’s increasingly fragile geopolitical climate, tensions between Donald Trump and Ali Khamenei have...

By Dr. BJ Enverga In June 1859, thousands of wounded soldiers lay abandoned on a battlefield in northern Italy. There were not enough doctors, not...

A newly assigned diplomat — let us call him BTS, for “Boy Too Sensitive”—has wasted no time making an impression in Manila, though perhaps...

By Robert B. Roque Jr. I’ve read with bitter contempt how farmers are affected by this crisis — and the anger sits heavy because the...

By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Inevitably, and by all indications, fuel prices will rise again. If it has not already, since today is Tuesday. Let’s take liquefied...