Doctors and health groups say the system allows politicians to influence who receives state medical aid, undermining ...

In a report written in the context of the flood control scandal, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies made a striking conclusion: the country’s bicameral system has become so dysfunctional ...

The promise the Constitution made and the one Congress has yet to keep Nearly four decades after the 1987 Constitution ...

THE PHILIPPINES’ long-delayed attempt to ending political dynasties risks amounting to little more than a symbolic gesture unless it meaningfully disrupts family-based succession in power, analysts ...

The Supreme Court has spoken with clarity: the policy mechanism may have been flawed, but the officials who implemented it in good faith were not” ...

CHRISTMAS in the Philippines has always been a season of joy, resilience, and unshakeable hope. Even in the darkest years, we ...

In a sweeping effort to dismantle political monopoly, modernize fiscal transparency and cleanse the party-list system of ...

Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the ...

The Philippine president urges Congress to focus on four reforms, including a bill limiting the power of large political clans. The Church welcomes the initiative, but doubts remain as to whether a ...

Perhaps nothing better captures our “negative exceptionalism” than the brazenly totalistic capture of our elected offices by a few families. Even at the height of political reform under the ...

Manila could receive $2.5 billion in U.S. security assistance through the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), ...