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We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

A moral crucible

CHIEF JUSTICE Renato Corona has announced, although not without his usual hemming and hawing, that he will testify at his own impeachment trial. Anyway, if and when he does testify, that will be the day. On the stand, Corona cannot expect to be taken at his word, as has been...

A spectacle within a spectacle (Updated)

QUITE OBVIOUSLY, impeachment is not strictly lawyers’ business. If the defense lawyers and some members of the court try, as in fact they do, to circumscribe it within legalities, they are out of order, because they’re shutting out the whole nation, which, for all its lay-mindedness, is still the...

The spirit is both little willing and weak

NO ONE I know is as possessed by the spirit of EDSA as Tito Caluag. Father Tito front-lined at EDSA then and front-lines for it now, fighting to transform it from mere spirit into an active culture. Indeed, to all intents and purposes, EDSA has been left where it happened...