When I wrote “Dedutertefication” in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last month, I expected pushback. What I did not fully anticipate was the texture of it—the specific, recurring shape of the ...

Clutter grows on my desk faster than I can say “Kondo Method” or “döstädning” (that’s Swedish death cleaning). Reclaiming space on the desk is a constant battle, and the last major victory ...

The Philippines is battling a perfect storm of challenges from multiple fronts, from pump prices of petroleum products skyrocketing to their highest on record, the peso plunging to its weakest level ...

I was hanging out with my nephews when their parents asked one of them a question. The boy answered sloppily, as though pressed into servitude, and with resentment to show for the effort. His mother, ...

Calls to abolish the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) have resurfaced after Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla floated the possibility of scrapping the youth council. Remulla cited declining participation and ...

Even if the guns fell silent in the US-Israeli versus Iran conflict tomorrow, the world would remain gripped by a deepening oil crisis with consequences that will reverberate through every sector of ...

The question I keep getting asked these days is how the Iran conflict will hit our economy. I’d point to three things—oil, remittances, and trade—disrupted in the wake of the ongoing war, which ...

While the world is grappling with soaring oil prices as an offshoot of the United States and Israel’s conflict with Iran, the lives of thousands of Filipino seafarers in the war-torn Middle East ...

OXFORD–“We don’t wish for war, but if it’s imposed on us, we won’t [shirk],” Iran’s last Shah (King of Kings) said in an interview at the height. “[This is] our jugular vein; we live ...

War in the Middle East has once again reminded Filipinos of a painful reality: our economy remains dangerously exposed to ...

The Iranian or Persian civilization is one of the oldest in the world. Long before Europeans generated a slew of philosophies and theories about the world, the Persian Empire had already given rise ...