Editor’s Corner

The Duterte administration preaches Federalism as a sort of ‘gospel of liberation’. My past interviews with executive director Joel Sy Egco and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said as much: there is an ‘urgent’ need to shift the center of power from ‘Imperial Manila’ to...

The forces that uphold our dignity as citizens of our nation—art, culture, laws, history, to name a few—are under attack. Not only are we being forced to believe a rewritten history based on outright fabrications, the powers-that-be are also rewriting the core values that...

By Joel Pablo Salud In Eric Gamalinda’s novel, Empire of Memory (First Edition, 1992), the author quotes the words of Dr. José Rizal in his work, Filipinas Dentro de Cien Años, written in Madrid sometime 1890: “In order to read the destiny of a people,...

by Joel Pablo Salud The bosses one gets to laugh with from time to time, share a drink or two even in the thick of a stressful situation, are as rare as gems. In my dealings with the corporate world, these people come few and...

by Joel Pablo Salud They were not the ‘usual suspects,’ at least, not those you’d often see hobnobbing at a coffeeshop. This ‘eclectic’ gathering of Filipinos, on the night of April 2, 2018, was anything but ordinary. Call it a magnanimous conclave of a cross-section...

by Joel Pablo Salud   How effective is the International Criminal Court (ICC) in curbing crimes against humanity? A better question, perhaps, should be: is the ICC sustainable given its current track record and spending? I was thinking of writing a Holy Week piece for the...