Marcos approval rating down, VP Sara up amid impeachment trial
Sara Duterte's approval rating rose to 61.3% while President Ferdinand Marcos stood at 36.4%, according to Momentum Research's August 2026 survey, amid ongoing impeachment trial
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Robin Padilla’s cringe ramblings on history
COMMENTARY: However, there is a method to the madness of Padilla’s statements. They collectively serve to obfuscate the issue that he wishes to target and that coupled with the DDS machinery produces propaganda that keeps their following convinced of the so- called righteousness of their cause.
GenZ urged: Turn political frustration into sustained action
Advocacy group Team Pinas urged the Gen Z to turn their political frustration into sustained political action and meaningful civic participation.
Ninoy and August 21 in my thoughts
So many problems need to be addressed for our country to progressively and decisively move forward and yet they remain unsolved. In fact, even up to now, despite 43 years, we still do not even know the mastermind behind the assassination of Ninoy
The pressure clock, and setting the stage for 2028
COMMENTARY:I am asking — I am telling — that we break it now, while the train is still approaching, on schedule, with a hundred lights visible to anyone willing to keep watch and stop the run and put a single honest hand on the lever.
Why were teachers included in the framing of school shooting incidents?
COMMENTARY: This is why the debate over Castro’s words should not end with the observation that she said, “some teachers” rather than “all teachers.” Her defenders are correct about the literal distinction. Her critics are entitled to ask a different question: Why were teachers brought into this particular discussion at all?
IBON Midyear BirdTalk 2026: Government must prioritize national development amid global instability
IBON executive director Sonny Africa:The upper-middle-class-income status isn’t holding true because, one, the Philippines is at the bottom one-third of the poorest countries in the world. Second, its GNI per capita of US$4, 850 is one-third of the global average of US$14, 244. Third, it doesn’t measure development because “economy is about the welfare of the people, not just economic growth.
Governance at Sea: Is this the right time for a Department of Maritime and Ocean Affairs?
COMMENTARY: It's high time for the president and our legislators to consider a Department of Maritime and Ocean Affairs built around the existing Presidential Office for Maritime Concerns. This would then become the lead agency for maritime security, maritime domain awareness, and compliance with UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Award, and for the formulation of integrated maritime policies covering security, environment, fisheries, shipping, and ports.
Rain or shine, No to Pax Silica
Habagat downpour didn’t deter members of groups opposed to Pax Silica, an international initiative to secure supply chains for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence and rare earth elements.
Sara Duterte impeachment trial, Week 6: Audit trail, courtroom tensions
For two days, Aug. 11 and 12, Commission on Audit supervising auditor Xylene Mae del Campo returned to a deceptively simple point: Acknowledgment receipts may show that someone received money, but they do not, by themselves, establish why the money was paid, whether the expense was authorized or whether a claimed confidential operation actually succeeded.
