The interview with Raul C. Pangalangan, a retired justice of the International Criminal Court which now has custody of former president Rodrigo Duterte, topped CoverStory’s best-read reports in the year just past. The Q&A, titled “The Court has ‘jurisdiction over jurisdiction,’” was conducted by Oliver Teves.

The other reports on the best-read list are:

• “Reading the mystery of Nora Aunor, superstar” by Joel Saracho

• “When ‘dinosaurs’ peopled the Inquirer, they made it No. 1” by Rosario A. Garcellano

• “We need to decolonize our understanding of teenage motherhood” by Eunice B. Santiago and Athena Charanne R. Presto

• “The grandeur of solitude: ‘Alone but never lonely’” by Bob Acebedo

• “‘Matutunaw din lahat ng nyebe’: SB19 and the Filipino dream” by Gideon Lasco

• “Some difficulty with Patricia Evangelista’s ‘Some People Need Killing’” by DLS Pineda

• “An Agta wedding in the Sierra Madre demonstrates the precarity of tradition” by Mari-An C. Santos

• “The collectors (aka ‘anik-anik’ lovers)” by Marilyn Cahatol

• “PLDT well on the way to building its campus-style HQ in Filinvest City” by Juan V. Sarmiento Jr.

A number of other reports by CoverStory drew wide readership in 2025, including (in no particular order):

• “Pope Leo the outsider insider: What to expect from the first Augustinian pontiff” by Lito B. Zulueta

• “Cooky Chua and Joaquin Ignacio on making music and the changing times” by TJ Burgonio

• “Like a bridge over troubled water: The life journey of Luis Jalandoni” by Oliver Teves

• “Return the money, jail the crooks: Vigorous protests again animate the motherland” by Rosario A. Garcellano

• “The dimensions of inequality in the Philippines by the numbers” by Eduardo C. Tadem

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