The Philippines enters this new year fully cognizant of the numerous and multifaceted threats that it faces, both within its territory and as part of the Indo-Pacific region. If we are to look at the ...
In studying economics, we are taught about scarcity—our time, energy, and basically, all financial and nonfinancial resources are not infinite. We sacrifice opportunity costs, typically the ...
I’d have a nosebleed when I go back home today.” I was taken aback when our tour guide, Remy, made this off-the-cuff remark at the start of our much-awaited Batanes sojourn. Our family of ...
As he bows before his landlord, the Malay peasant bends so low that he quietly passes foul gas in his master’s presence. Thus, the anthropologist James C. Scott opens his seminal book “Weapons of ...
The government collected millions of pesos in fines from seatbelt violators last year—proof, per the Land Transportation Office (LTO), that it was strictly implementing the law. Indeed, P179.9 ...