On Sept. 15, 2022, the peso-dollar exchange rate reached a milestone at P57.43/$, a record low in our history. While worrying to many, this presents a challenge and an opportunity.

Entrepreneurs have heard the warnings loud and clear. Adopt AI or be left behind. Embrace digital transformation or become a dinosaur. Adapt or die....

MY TODDLER and I have a new favorite activity: craning our necks to catch a glimpse of the neighbors. Since we have been instructed to stay at home in our apartment in a triple-decker in Somerville, Mass., we have gotten quite good at it.

Cellphones and coronavirus are icons of the 21st Age of Globalization. Six ages of globalization of humankind preceded the 21st century digital era however. Between robots and humanoids taking over our species, and the decimation of the human race by a pandemic, what are we to learn from the previous ones?

The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) was signed on April 28, 2014. It supplements the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) under the Mutual Defense Treaty...

THE latest battle in America’s woke wars featured a country-themed restaurant-and-store which gloried in the name of Cracker Barrel. The senior management of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. tried to modernize their enterprise by simplifying its logo and removing the image of an overall-clad man leaning on a barrel. MAGA spotted a plot by woke managers to destroy another corner of Old America. Battle ensued.

The University of the Philippines (UP) is again in the news.

On Oct. 22, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the World Economic Outlook (WEO) and its corresponding database, an Excel file of macroeconomic data...

WHO can forget the Y2K bug which spawned expensive consultancies on the premise that the computers would reset all the data to 1900 when the millennium was crossed to cause plane crashes, stuck elevators, crashed bank deposits, and lost files? The biggest surprise was that nothing happened. And countries like Russia that disregarded the dire warnings racked up savings on Y2K consultancy costs and had the last laugh.

Educators and psychologists should not be the only ones worried about the consequences on education and everyone’s mental health of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contagion. Historians, political scientists, economists and other social scientists, political, social and development activists, and everyone else aware of how much the state of Philippine society affects their own lives should also be concerned.

I am very much looking forward to reaching the “discounted” age, which is 60 years old under Philippine law. Although, I still have some...

As someone who has worn the uniform of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for decades, I have come to understand that loyalty...