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Fr. Rudy, Judge Menmen, and the work before us
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - July 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Last Saturday, July 11, 2026, marked the 41st anniversary of the disappearance of Cebu activist priest Fr. Rudy Romano. Although I was only a nine-year-old child on July 11, 1985, his name was already familiar to...
A substantive first week of the impeachment trial
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - July 11, 2026 - 12:00am
The nation is currently glued to the Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Fear is never neutral
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - July 7, 2026 - 12:00am
Classes were suspended at Talisay City National High School yesterday due to a threat made over the weekend on Facebook by an unverified account using the name “Zane Bacalso.” The poster wrote, “bantay...
The memory China fears
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - July 4, 2026 - 12:00am
On June 16, the Cebu City Council passed a resolution declaring every July 12 as West Philippine Sea Victory Day.
Too young for social media
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 30, 2026 - 12:00am
Following last week’s Tacloban school shooting allegedly carried out by two Grade 9 students, that killed three fellow students and injured 20 others various proposals have emerged to regulate smartphone...
Violence did not begin in that classroom
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 27, 2026 - 12:00am
The school shooting in Tacloban last Monday cannot be reduced to one or two causes. Easy and emotional explanations are precisely what we should resist here.
Manufactured doubt
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 16, 2026 - 12:00am
Public confusion can become a potent political weapon. Christopher Walker, writing in the Journal of Democracy in 2018, calls this kind of influence “sharp power.” He uses the term mainly to describe...
The missing case
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 9, 2026 - 12:00am
On June 4, 2026, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), through its Board of Governors, released a statement on what constitutes a quorum for the Senate to conduct official business. It said the June 3 Senate...
Let the process work
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 2, 2026 - 12:00am
In the span of a few weeks, the Senate gave us chaos and confusion in its halls, senators in tears, a walkout that stopped a proposal being rammed through, and a public quarrel over whether members should be allowed...
Garbage: A test of people-centered governance
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 26, 2026 - 12:00am
Garbage, or more precisely solid waste management, is Cebu City’s single biggest community-level problem today. Traffic congestion was once widely thought to be the city’s foremost problem, but not ...
Hollowing out
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 19, 2026 - 12:00am
In their 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt warn that 21st-century democracies rarely collapse through revolutions or military coups; they...
Beyond the summit hall (Part 2)
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 12, 2026 - 12:00am
In the first part of this piece, I shared the discussion from a panel I sat through on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during last Friday’s ASEAN Community Town Hall, a civil society-organized forum...
Widening the ASEAN conversation
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 5, 2026 - 12:00am
Cebu is gearing up for the Philippines’ hosting of the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit from Wednesday, May 6, to Friday, May 8, 2026. The Philippines assumed the ASEAN chairmanship...
Binaliw: The need for clarity amid outrage
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 2, 2026 - 12:00am
Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera revealed in recent media interviews that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has allowed the limited reopening of the private landfill facility in Barangay Binaliw...
Sick rumors from sick minds
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - April 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Social media had a field day last week parrying the fake news spread by many die-hard Duterte supporters about the health of the president.
Oil crisis’ silver lining
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - April 7, 2026 - 12:00am
The Supreme Court announced over a week ago that it would hold its April summer sessions in its En Banc Session Hall in Manila instead of, as is traditional, in its summer house in Baguio City due to rising fuel...
Relief and resilience
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 31, 2026 - 12:00am
Even if the conflict in the Middle East shifts from physical war to a war of words and wounded pride among its main protagonists, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s apparent desire not to appear weak before...
Gobal crisis, then and now
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 28, 2026 - 12:00am
“Perceptions of a global crisis have been rampant for over a decade.
Rethinking the old workweek
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 10, 2026 - 12:00am
The pandemic, not so long ago, introduced us to the terms “asynchronous” and “synchronous” as online modalities for conducting work, forums, or classes.
From my students, a warning
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 3, 2026 - 12:00am
As I was about to write this piece in a restaurant inside a mall, I noticed a food delivery rider watching on his phone a clip of the former president in what appeared to be a pro-Duterte reel. This is not the first...
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