Thinking about transitional justice
By Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza
In 2004, the United Nations Secretary General’s Report on the Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies described transitional justice...
Korea is the Philippines Done Correctly
By Rafael Lorenzo G. Conejos
“EXPECTING Korea’s reconstruction is like expecting a rose to come into bloom in a garbage can.” A line from a...
On wanting to be a hero
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
Today, Sept. 11, is the 100th birth anniversary of the late dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. That his birthday is grandly celebrated, and his death...
Dismantling the Post-EDSA order
By Calixto V. Chikiamco
A friend recently asked me, “What’s Duterte doing? Why is he going against the Prietos and Inquirer and the Lopezes and ABS-CBN?”
He was referring...
Stirrings
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
As a political activist, sometimes life seems to be one long meeting, or more precisely, an unending series of meetings. Not that I’m complaining....
Talking on the side
By A. R. Samson
Those who preside at meetings try to get others around the table to give their inputs when asked. It irritates the chair no end...
Not enough warm bodies for Build! Build! Build! program
By Raymond Franco
Oppositors to the tax reform bill being pushed in Congress, as embodied in House Bill (HB) 5636, are quite numerous. In addition,...
North Korea and defending the West Philippine Sea
By Jemy Gatdula
It started out with what appeared at first to be an earthquake. Just that the earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale and lasting...
Unschooled in human rights
By Luis V. Teodoro
Echoing his appointees in his propaganda machine, and the trolls and hacks who infest social media as well as some newspapers and broadcast networks,...
Building name recall
By Maria Victoria Rufino
It is a natural human desire to be acknowledged.
For one’s talent in the arts, a scientific invention, the contribution to the community and society,...
Cronyism in Renewable energy, gas sectors?
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Last week, the National Transmission Corp. (TransCo), the administrator of feed in tariff (FiT) -- which guarantees high prices for 20 years for variable...
The 12-hour law
By Marvin A. Tort
Makati City is a small but modern city. And just like any other metropolitan area, it has its share of issues, crime included. Nowadays,...