Ahead of next week’s column, some observations. There’s been an influx of news, the latest being that the House is looking for a scapegoat, but let’s rewind to this week’s developments. Some thoughts on #maharlikafund and two news items and what they suggest. The House blinked, caving in to public…

This week’s column looks at two inconvenient news items (for the administration). The first is a Reuters story on the 6-month losses of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund; the second is an Asia Sentinel story on Temasek’s writing off its investment in FTX after it collapsed. Related to these are…

This week’s The Long View:

An omnibus: three columns, as I have been under the weather so was out of commission for over a week. Today’s column refers to these items: Understanding the conditions of New Bilibid Prisons: Implications for Integrated Reforms by Raymund E. Narag, Ph.D.; …

This week’s column tried to take a holistic look at different stories competing for our attention. But the overall story it seems to me, is the government acknowledging health is a drag on the economy, and that the economy could stand a boost from dropping health precautions: this would also…

My column this week looks at the woes of the Justice Secretary, through a historian’s lens. This week’s The Long View

My column last week was on the continuing saga of the POGOs and Beijing’s continuing frustration with Manila. After my article went to press, it turned out the Senate President was indiscreet leading the Chinese ambassador to deny the conversation he had with Philippine senators. These were the columns I…

Thanks to the Asia Sentinel, my review of the first 100 days of Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. just came out. It was an on again, off-again, on-again anniversary, as I discuss below. As you read in last week’s column, overshadowing the on-again, off-again anniversary, was the recent Palace purge. …

esterday my 3-part series on #ML50 ended, proposing aspects we have overlooked or tended to gloss over: 1. that it took longer (up to 1976) to entrench the dictatorship; 2. that he had many more accomplices; 3. that it was an essentially anti-modern effort. #ML50 You can access a comprehensive martial…