Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) estimated that 18.9 million Filipinos were functionally illiterate. For a few days, FLEMMS enjoyed front-page coverage, mainly ...

It’s the season of resurrecting a dead bill once again. This dubious phenomenon happens every three years when the two Houses of Congress get new sets of lawmakers. A proposed law that was stillborn ...

One of my proudest moments this year was returning—not just as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, but ...

As is always the case, it takes some time before regulation catches up with the rapid development of technology. Online ...

Anna Cristina Tuazon’s column last week (see “Bachelor of Arts without art?” 7/10/25) was a nuanced critique of recent ...

Textbook history drills us into remembering people and events relevant to the development of the nation. We forget that ...

What does justice look like behind bars? For more than 10,000 Filipinos who finished their basic education while in detention ...

They say silence is better than noise. That it soothes the soul, that peace lives in the quiet. However, I never knew silence as peace. I knew it as uncertainty. I knew it as cold shoulders, frigid ...