Bureaucrat capitalism has turned Philippine governance into a marketplace, where officials moonlight as entrepreneurs and public office doubles as private enterprise: from national cronyism to Bicol's quarry-owning politicians. Ateneans must reject complacency and reclaim public service from the logic of profit, both on campus and beyond it.
The Philippine Senate does not need to be fixed. It needs to be pressured. From Bato dela Rosa's months-long absence to leadership coups timed around impeachment proceedings, the institution has made visible what structural critics have long argued: the chamber governs not for the Filipino people, but for the elite factions that produced it.
One year after Duterte’s arrest, the central question confronting the country is whether the system of violence and political tolerance for killings that flourished during his administration can truly be dismantled.
Ang bawat tagtag sa Andaya Highway, lalo na para sa mga lulan ng pampublikong sasakyan, ay salamin ng palyang pagtugon ng estado sa maayos at inklusibong pagpapaunlad ng imprastraktura at transportasyon, gayundin sa kaligtasan ng mamamayan.