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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For the Philippines’ Alexie Brooks, Miss Eco International 2025, victory is ‘from the heart’
Armin P. Adina
April 23, 2025
Alexie Brooks’ victory in the Miss Eco International 2025 pageant was nothing short of groundbreaking. Not only was she the
FEU Bamboo Band in concert to mark a dual celebration
April 23, 2025
The Far Eastern University Center for the Arts (FCA) presents the FEU Bamboo Band in a special concert titled “Ascend:
Francis’ papacy, defined by mercy and compassion, was neither rigorist nor laxist
Lito B. Zulueta
April 22, 2025
Within weeks of his 2013 election, Pope Francis shocked many by washing the feet of two girls—one of them a
2 journalists write Covid diary based on years of living in China
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Filipino American journalists Rene Pastor and Cristina DC Pastor did not expect the heavy knock on the door of their
Take the ‘Trump tariffs’ to the local levels and to the May elections, economist says
Juan V. Sarmiento Jr.
April 21, 2025
How can the Philippines cope with the unpredictability of US President Donald Trump, who has upended the rules-based global trading
Why were Mary Magdalene and other women first to witness the Resurrection?
Minerva Generalao
April 20, 2025
“I have seen the Lord.” Mary Magdalene made this announcement to the apostles after she saw, heard and spoke with