A Verdict Shaped by Politics

The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte is one of the most closely watched political events in recent Philippine history. Beyond the legal arguments lies a harder question: how much is this costing taxpayers, and what is it buying them?

Numbers Game: Where Allegiance Weighs More Than Evidence

Her Rising Numbers Tell the Real Story

"The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte increasingly appears, to her supporters and many observers, less like a constitutional exercise and more like a campaign aimed at weakening her political standing ahead of 2028. The charges — betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution, graft, and bribery — are undeniably serious.

Yet the prosecution's presentation has invited criticism that it has been more theatrical than evidence-based. Recent surveys suggest that a large part of the public shares that view."

Politics Wearing Legal Robes: The Impeachment Trial of VP Sara Duterte

On September 14, the Bangsamoro people finally cast the ballot they had waited for seven years. More than 600 candidates contested seats in the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament, with turnout reaching 82 percent of 2.39 million registered voters, about 1.97 million ballots cast — the highest in BARMM's history.


Two Former Comrades, the Floor Math, and the Palace's Hand: BARMM's First Vote for Chief Minister

When Cardinal Jaime Sin took to the microphone on Radio Veritas on February 22, 1986, and called on Filipinos to gather at EDSA, four institutions answered: the Church, the universities, the press, and civil society. Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and General Fidel Ramos then broke with the Marcos government, giving the uprising its military backbone. Without their defection, the civilians who filled EDSA would have had no military camps to protect. Together, they helped bring down the Marcos dictatorship. For many Filipinos, it became the nation's finest hour.

The Great Betrayal of EDSA I:  When Its Heroes Chose Marcos Jr.

The administration is throwing its full weight into bringing down Vice President Sara Duterte, yet she remains far more popular than the President.

Marcos Is Going After Sara the Wrong Way

Filipinos have a saying for someone who arrives after the fight is over: "huli na, mali pa" — too late, and still gotten wrong. That describes our Supreme Court's habit with urgent petitions. The deeper irony: the Court exists precisely to weigh both facts and law, with the Constitution supreme among all laws — yet its own chronic delay raises a troubling question of whether the institution sworn to uphold that Constitution is, in practice, eroding it.

The Supreme Court: Eroding the Constitution It Is Sworn to Uphold

A Warning on Religious Labels in Philippine Journalism

Why does religion become part of a crime story when the suspect is a Muslim, but stay irrelevant when he is not? This is not a demand that Muslims be spared scrutiny — it is a demand for one standard of journalism: fair, consistent, and free of religious bias.


Crime, Creed, and the Colonial Echo: 

We have lived through the usual consensus approach to national problems. It reflects the liberal idea of limiting state power through the social contract. Our Constitution is built on this idea: it protects citizens from excessive government control through checks and balances, individual rights, and democratic process.

The Forfeited Trust

Crime, Creed, and the Colonial Echo:  A Warning on Religious Labels in Philippine Journalism

A written submission has reached the United Nations Human Rights Council, and it deserves more attention than it has received. It argues plainly that the continued detention of former President Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court is not justice but arbitrary detention, and that the process behind it should trouble every Filipino who believes in due process and national sovereignty.

Sovereignty on Trial: The Case Against Duterte's ICC Detention

Two Former Comrades, the Floor Math, and the Palace's Hand

Echoes of the South by Dr. Darwin T. Rasul III

Echoes of the South

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