Why tax deductions are stupid (And why we love them)
By Justin Fox
Here is the basic argument against using tax deductions to encourage certain behavior -- in this case, buying houses. It’s from the...
For meritorious work or bounty?
By Mario Antonio G. Lopez
The Philippine National Police Peace & Order Agenda for Transformation and Upholding the Rule of Law (P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan) is designed to transform the PNP...
Do you like my hair?
By A. R. Samson
Even when it’s clear your opinion won’t change anybody’s mind, it is still sought as if it could. And does it really matter if...
US energy policies and implications in Asia and Philippines
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Energy means development. It is not possible to have fast growth in all sectors -- agriculture, manufacturing and services -- and sustain it without...
That Facebook quiz might not be so innocent
By Kara Alaimo
THE recent disclosures that Russians bought ads from Facebook, Google and Twitter to target US voters in 2016 have left lawmakers investigating...
Two steps forward, one step back
By Calixto V. Chikiamco
In December last year, I wrote a column “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back,” describing the uneven progress six months into the Duterte administration....
Rejecting foreign aid
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
It was coming. With President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s well-known distaste for the European Union (EU) and its unsolicited advice on human rights violations in...
Lunch with the Yellow Pad: What is UHC?
By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
This time, I try to write differently, patterned after the Financial Times weekly column called “Lunch with the FT,” an institution of what probably...
‘A novel will be finished tonight’
By Juan EY Arcellana
WHEN a poet dies, does humanity feel a little diminished? What if two poets die in a space of a...
Wishful thinking
By Luis V. Teodoro
After saying that he still “has to talk to the NPA (New People’s Army),” by which statement he meant that the Government of the...
Walang basagan ng trip: our ‘create your own reality’ culture
By Jemy Gatdula
Correct me if I’m wrong but the sequencing was this: Monday Mekanda, Tuesday Daimos, Wednesday Mazinger Z, Thursday Grendizer, and Friday was -- of...
Ranting as a form of persuasion
By A. R. Samson
Can public outrage at traffic, incessant legislative investigations, initiatives against outsourcing, or company-specific decisions on pending projects gain traction with media blasts? Is ranting...