marcos jr administration

How do the senatorial candidates fare on high prices?
April 25, 2025

When the urban poor say no
April 22, 2025
Urban poor communities are being demolished to make way for business establishments promising job opportunites. But this is meaningless if they are relocated far from where these jobs are.

Trump’s hyper-neoliberalism
April 21, 2025
FEATURES
While the Trump administration represents a rupture from neoliberal globalization, its protectionist stance reflects a deeper continuity. Trump is not repudiating neoliberalism but rather accelerating and concentrating it.

Who will stand with the poor?
April 19, 2025
FEATURES
The 2025 elections shall be a game-changer. It shall make us learn the hard way that real democratic change through elections will come when we find policymakers and leaders who are working with the poor in their daily difficulties, in their struggles for a better nation.

US PH Tariff: Govt’s misguided optimism
April 16, 2025
The Philippine government has taken a simplistic view of the tariff imposition.

Trump 2.0: The Emperor’s New Clothes
April 14, 2025
The US is undergoing a radical transition from decades of accustomed grand strategies – one that requires a political figure disruptive enough to force that change.

Critical Health Bar
April 12, 2025
While I felt relieved to finally have a diagnosis and a treatment plan, I still had to figure out how to afford it.

Rice cartels: They who should be named
April 11, 2025
The Rice Tariffication Law has allowed unscrupulous traders to proliferate which would explain why rice prices stay high even if all other factors indicate that prices should be lower.

What’s not being said about PH employment
April 11, 2025
The actual situation of millions of Filipinos, not official statistics, are the main determinant of how bad the jobs situation is.