Opinion

By Robert B. Roque Jr. The persistence of illegal gambling in our communities is not just a matter of vice — it is a reflection...

By Robert B. Roque Jr. Summer vacation is in. But what’s very much around the corner is a big change in School Year 2026–2027, as...

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...

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...