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Political will to build

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has, for so long, been seen as a corrupt agency, one that is slow to act...

After the battle: Rebuilding Marawi

Five months of battle reduced most of the Islamic City of Marawi to rubble. The battle to roust Daesh-inspired bandits from the country’s only...

Alma Anonas-Carpio’s How to Tame Your Tikbalang Without Even Trying

A­n acquaintance had explained her book-buying habits in this way: she gets print copies of the books she wants people to know she owns,...

PH Lit: Young, vibrant, gloriously alive by Alma Anonas-Carpio

  When you are the Lit Ed of the Graphic, going where the stories and poems are is part of the job—and it is both...

Flip trip on a Czech trek

Eastern Europe is not exactly the beaten track for those chi-chi trips to Europe we who are not of that continent dream of when...

The tremendous power of secrets: Cecilla Manguerra Brainard’s ‘Magdalena’

The first call of a novel is to tell a story. Not just any story, mind you, but the story only the author of...

Surviving an ‘acoustics war’

As with any government agency accused of corrupt practices, working for the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may not fall under someone’s definition of...

Heads, tails, tar and feathers

The mess that is the Dengvaxia issue as it stands now does nothing for the public good. Over the last week, the public saw...

Laughing while love wins: Zsazsa Zaturrnah’s trip to Manila

When I first read Carlo Vergara’s comic on gay superhero Zsazsa Zaturrnah, it was two in the morning and I woke my neighbors with...

The vax on both your houses

Worse than any natural cataclysm is a disaster created by humans—take the horror that is the Denvaxia uproar. As of the latest reports in the...