Kuya Rey Bufi: A Kwentista’s Journey

Through floods, storms, and long walks, Rey learned that storytelling is not just performance but presence, showing up even when conditions say otherwise, because children kept showing up too.

Power Without Momentum

Power remains, but momentum slips, as the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. drifts from direction to reaction, showing how leadership can weaken without a crisis.

Kuya Rey Bufi: A Kwentista’s Journey

Through floods, storms, and long walks, Rey learned that storytelling is not just performance but presence, showing up even when conditions say otherwise, because children kept showing up too.

Power Without Momentum

Power remains, but momentum slips, as the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. drifts from direction to reaction, showing how leadership can weaken without a crisis.
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Power Play

How Civil Society, Business, And The Public Can Force Reforms Through

Only a united, sustained push from citizens, civil society, and business can force Congress to act on reforms that threaten entrenched political power.

The Four Bills That Could Break The System Or Break The President

Four sweeping reform bills now test whether a weakened presidency is pursuing real political change or merely performing survival.

The Five-Hundred Peso Noche Buena: A Government That Cannot Read Its People

A ₱500 Noche Buena may be framed as guidance, but the backlash reveals deeper concerns about dignity, hardship, and a government struggling to read the public’s economic reality.

Did The ICC Ruling Crack Sara’s Political Future?

The ICC ruling against Rodrigo Duterte dismantles the illusion of Sara Duterte’s political insulation, casting her not as a bystander but as an active factor in a global reckoning over justice, power and accountability.

Outsourced Democracy: When A Nation Loses Faith In Its Own Leaders

Flirting with a “caretaker government” reflects not stability but a deeper loss of faith in democracy itself.

Lead Or Lose The Republic

Amid mounting scandals and fading trust, the country now needs the President to lead decisively before the crisis engulfs the Republic.

The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea: The Philippines Has Run Out Of Good Choices

A nation trapped between collapsing leadership and false choices is urged to demand a path beyond crisis and reclaim better options.

The Cost To Imee Marcos: Will Filipinos Punish Her Or Reward Her For Breaking The Family Code?

A public break within a ruling dynasty tests whether Filipinos will see truth-telling against one’s own family as betrayal or a long-overdue reckoning.

The Church That Looked Away: INC, Power, And The Politics Of Permission

A silent stage became a powerful signal, raising questions about how institutional choices, shifting alliances, and unspoken calculations can reshape the balance of political influence in the Philippines.

The Death Of Elite Immunity And The Coming Political Realignment

Elite immunity is collapsing as insiders turn on each other, exposing a fractured political system where fear replaces loyalty, trust erodes, and power rapidly shifts away from the old order.