Formation by Gary Olivar
Friendlier skies
Last month I wrote about a budding online initiative to bring back the original name of our premier airport, Manila...
Death penalty
The possible restoration of the death penalty by Congress is the next casus belli that’s likely to come up between...
Ideologues
The local communists and both their armed and unarmed cadres have just broken the months-old ceasefire that was supposed to...
Tax-onomy
Speaking before the monthly meeting of the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) last week, Finance Secretary Sonny Dominguez’s Powerpoint cover...
Parsing Trump
“Trump: no visas for 7 Muslim countries!” cried out the story headline in this paper last Sunday. As it turned...
Gordian knot at PNP
The President’s luck continues to run high. As scandalous 1findings surfaced about the involvement of rogue PNP elements in the...
The ‘federal idea’ (2): Parliamentarism
Last week I talked about the federal idea as an alternative system of government in lieu of our current unitary...
Bring back MIA
No, this piece isn’t about rescuing soldiers who are missing in action. It’s about an initiative launched yesterday by the...
The ‘federal’ idea
(Part 1) Even during the early days of his campaign, candidate Digong was already a vocal proponent of changing our...
‘Welcome back!’
That was my publisher Rollie Estabillo’s gracious greeting to me when I approached him last week about resuming my columns...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.