How the Comelec means to fight sex and hate in the election campaign
Rosario A. Garcellano
April 9, 2025
Incredibly, the disgraced congressional candidate in Pasig City doesn’t get it. In another campaign event he trotted out a member
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‘Nanlaban. Tepok.’
Roderick Toledo
March 23, 2025
At the height of Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs,” there was a huge billboard along C5 in Pasig City that
Duterte’s arrest is about crimes against humanity, not ‘pamumulitika’
Rosario A. Garcellano
March 13, 2025
Too bad that after the daylong wait on Tuesday for President Marcos Jr. to enlighten the nation on the arrest
Where love continues to live
Antonette Alzaga
February 14, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: With this new section called Young Voices, CoverStory opens space for young people feeling their way into the
Interregnum
Rosario A. Garcellano
January 5, 2025
Three impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte are pending in the House of Representatives, filed respectively by members of
Tying up loose ends, or more unraveling in 2025?
Roderick Toledo
December 31, 2024
We can see more clearly the cycle of renewal and rebirth whenever the holiday season comes and the new year
Mary Jane Veloso’s Christmas miracle
Rosario A. Garcellano
December 21, 2024
Mary Jane Veloso’s return to her motherland under a prisoner transfer agreement between Indonesia and the Philippines is the ultimate
Who will save us from the bicam?
Milwida Guevara
December 20, 2024
The bicameral conference committee (bicam) is the most powerful and the weakest phase in our budgeting process. It is in
Words of rage and murder
Rosario A. Garcellano
November 24, 2024
The once-formidable UniTeam continues to implode, providing circus-like spectacle as the country tries to get back on its feet after
Election parallels: Does a bad world need a bad guy?
Roderick Toledo
November 23, 2024
The world is in shock, the headlines say, in reporting that Donald Trump has decisively won the US presidential election
No such thing as ‘plain rice’
DLS Pineda
November 16, 2024
Makò Micro-Press held a zine-making workshop for Masipag farmers and urban poor gardeners from Payatas in Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija,
Scum returns, to stay?
Roderick Toledo
November 1, 2024
The ebb and flow of history is such that the scum that was washed away eventually returns to shore. The
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A testament to faith stands strong in a coastal town in Camarines Sur
Antonette Alzaga
April 18, 2025
CALABANGA, CAMARINES SUR—In the heart of this first-class municipality by the coast, a testament to faith stands strong. The wooden
A support system, a voice, and a movement for women and girls with hemophilia
Andrea H. Trinidad
April 17, 2025
In observance of World Hemophilia Day today on April 17 and of National Hemophilia Awareness Month this April, stories like
Once more on Good Friday: Casa San Miguel’s Lenten tradition
Jen Velarmino-van der Heijde
April 16, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES—For 32 years, Casa San Miguel, an arts and culture sanctuary in this coastal town, has marked Good
Student groups win awards for innovative environment projects
April 15, 2025
UP Circuit and Santa Elena High School STEM Club bested other campus organizations in a recent competition aimed at encouraging
Love and a million thanks to you, Pilita
Boy Villasanta
April 14, 2025
Pilita Corrales, Asia’s Queen of Song and an enduring icon in the Philippines’ Tin Pan Alley, has bid us adieu
Atin Ito starts campus caravan to provide correct info on the West Philippine Sea
Raymond Aldo M. Mina
April 13, 2025
Atin Ito, a coalition of progressive groups and nongovernment organizations, has called on the youth to be actively involved in