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How the Comelec means to fight sex and hate in the election campaign

Incredibly, the disgraced congressional candidate in Pasig City doesn’t get it. In another campaign event he trotted out a member of his team and commented on her looks, prompting the Commission on Elections to again order him to explain why he should not be charged with a poll offense.  It’s the second show-cause order issued...

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‘Nanlaban. Tepok.’

At the height of Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs,” there was a huge billboard along C5 in Pasig City that advertised a pesticide called Tepox. It had an image of a dead cockroach, flat on its back and its feet up in the air, with this message: “Ipis. Nanlaban. Tepox.” The tongue-in-cheek ad played on the...

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Duterte’s arrest is about crimes against humanity, not ‘pamumulitika’

Too bad that after the daylong wait on Tuesday for President Marcos Jr. to enlighten the nation on the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, no one thought to ask, when he agreed to take questions, what he thought of his sister’s statement lamenting the supposed failure of Filipinos to learn from the past. Minutes after the...

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Where love continues to live 

EDITOR’S NOTE: With this new section called Young Voices, CoverStory opens space for young people feeling their way into the world and trying to formulate the rhyme and reason behind the paths they choose to take. I came across a post that presented a question: “How do you deal with grief?”  Many had answers: Sit...

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Interregnum

Three impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte are pending in the House of Representatives, filed respectively by members of civic organizations, activist groups, and a coalition of priests and lawyers. A fourth complaint is reported to be in the works.  The first two complaints were filed with the expectation that action would be taken...

Tying up loose ends, or more unraveling in 2025?
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Tying up loose ends, or more unraveling in 2025?

We can see more clearly the cycle of renewal and rebirth whenever the holiday season comes and the new year approaches. We want to leave our old selves behind and become better in our collective and individual lives in the new year. As an economy, we want greater wealth and productivity. As a government, we...

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Who will save us from the bicam?

The bicameral conference committee (bicam) is the most powerful and the weakest phase in our budgeting process.   It is in the bicam where vested interests not only lurk but also come to fruition. Without benefit of deliberations, its members reduce the funding of agencies, transfer funds from one program to another, defund programs, and increase...

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Words of rage and murder

The once-formidable UniTeam continues to implode, providing circus-like spectacle as the country tries to get back on its feet after the devastation wrought by an unusual cluster of weather disturbances.  In a virtual presser that began shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday in the House of Representatives, an enraged Vice President Sara Duterte unleashed startling words...