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The tax didn’t fix the thing it made more expensive. Why are we so much better at collecting for stolen electricity than stopping it from…
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The tax didn’t fix the thing it made more expensive. Why are we so much better at collecting for stolen electricity than stopping it from…

Lowering the bar introduces the huge danger of rewriting the rules mid-trial and, worse, amending the Constitution.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., once said: “I started our digital transformation by strengthening the backbone of progress —…

The two-thirds vote requirement is not just a procedural technicality; it is a constitutional principle meant to ensure that any conviction…

Anyway, by now we can probably guess that ‘what people do’ generally applies more to Lacson’s favored tactical line of attack rather than…

The allocations to the House grew by P1 billion to P3 billion annually between 2015 and 2021, then by P12 billion in 2023, P12.5 billion…

THE PUBLIC HAS NOT FORGOTTEN (AND SHOULD NEVER FORGET) THAT THE FLOODWATERS ARE NOT UNFORESEEABLE ACTS OF GOD BUT A CONSEQUENCE OF…

LAW SAYS THEY CAN RAISE THE FEE ONLY EVERY THREE YEARS. RAISE IT NOW, THEN THE FANCY NEW PASSPORT COMES IN 2028, ‘CAN WE RAISE IT?’ ‘WE…

WHETHER BY DESIGN OR ACCIDENT, THE OPTICS HAVE DAMAGED A SUPPOSEDLY INDEPENDENT INSTITUTION THAT THRIVES ON PUBLIC TRUST

The influence of social media is not primarily a legal phenomenon. It is cultural: it lives in what we normalize, what we notice, and…

For years, creativity in the Philippines was often treated as something to celebrate rather than something to build an economy around. But…

With the strong inclination to craft a pork barrel-packed proposal, the House’s own budget should have faced the most scrutiny.

The government is leveraging digital transformation to create one million high-value digital jobs by 2028.

If the Senate ultimately rejects the fixed 16-vote rule, a trip to the Supreme Court seems almost inevitable.

The tragedy in Banga, coupled with previous incidents in Tacloban and Zamboanga, laid bare the need for a reliable framework that holds…

In math, it is the ‘bottom number in a fraction that shows the total number of equal parts making up a whole.’ In this case, 24 is the…

Now some senators, who are sworn to protect the Constitution, are the ones eroding the safeguards instituted by its framers.

Bongbong should be reminded that institutions lose credibility when citizens suspect accountability follows political allegiance.
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WHETHER BY DESIGN OR ACCIDENT, THE OPTICS HAVE DAMAGED A SUPPOSEDLY INDEPENDENT INSTITUTION THAT THRIVES ON PUBLIC TRUST

The influence of social media is not primarily a legal phenomenon. It is cultural: it lives in what we normalize, what we notice, and…

For years, creativity in the Philippines was often treated as something to celebrate rather than something to build an economy around. But…

With the strong inclination to craft a pork barrel-packed proposal, the House’s own budget should have faced the most scrutiny.

The government is leveraging digital transformation to create one million high-value digital jobs by 2028.

If the Senate ultimately rejects the fixed 16-vote rule, a trip to the Supreme Court seems almost inevitable.

The tragedy in Banga, coupled with previous incidents in Tacloban and Zamboanga, laid bare the need for a reliable framework that holds…

In math, it is the ‘bottom number in a fraction that shows the total number of equal parts making up a whole.’ In this case, 24 is the…

Now some senators, who are sworn to protect the Constitution, are the ones eroding the safeguards instituted by its framers.

Bongbong should be reminded that institutions lose credibility when citizens suspect accountability follows political allegiance.