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Double standard in the Philippines

by Edsel Tupaz on April 29, 2013

The petition against the Guardian raises novel questions; it's the first time a claim has been raised presenting a...

An even more exclusive Senate?

by Ronald U. Mendoza, Ph.D./AIM Policy Center on April 27, 2013

In the last two weeks before the elections, voters still have a chance to make the Senate much more inclusive

1,000 days to MDGs deadline; options for PH

by Luiza Carvalho on April 26, 2013

The momentum that the MDGs created when the Millennium Declaration was signed is going for a final push

Bear witness

by Marites Dañguilan Vitug on April 24, 2013

Investigative reporters in the US are upbeat about the future of their work and craft

From Chechnya to Boston: How the threat spreads

by Maria Ressa on April 23, 2013

Gone are the days of direct links and centralized commands. It's a bottom-up peer-networked world – each small cell...

From ‘ground war’ to ‘air war’

by Marites Dañguilan Vitug on April 22, 2013

With restrictions on TV ads lifted by the Supreme Court, will sorties lose primacy in the campaign?

Boston bombings: When terrorism is a click away

by Maria Ressa on April 21, 2013

Handsome young men with hatred in their hearts, fanned and fuelled by the Internet

UAAP residency rule: A huge setback

by Sen Pia Cayetano on April 16, 2013

A student-athlete is a student first, then an athlete second. They must be given the choice of which school they think...

The Marcos Diary: At the heart of a dictator

by William C. Rempel on April 14, 2013

The diary says so much about the vulnerability of democracy wherever fiction trumps the truth

Think beyond the parish

by Jayeel Serrano Cornelio on April 13, 2013

The statistical data are clear: At a national scale, the pews of the Catholic Church are emptying

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