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Spun

by Alex Magno - May 22, 2025 - 12:00am

Every midterm election is a referendum on the sitting president. Always.

Self-inflicted

by Alex Magno - May 20, 2025 - 12:00am

It is important to listen to what Toby Tiangco is telling us.

Scapegoating

by Alex Magno - May 17, 2025 - 12:00am

There seems to be some hesitation to fully examine the results of the last elections in the mainstream media channels.

Glitches

by Alex Magno - May 15, 2025 - 12:00am

The absolute worst scenario did not happen.

Defused

by Alex Magno - May 13, 2025 - 12:00am

India and Pakistan have been warring for decades over competing claims over the Kashmir. The world might have chosen to ignore this irresolvable squabble over landlocked territory high up the mountains had it not...

Shepherd

by Alex Magno - May 10, 2025 - 12:00am

You know the saying: enter the conclave a pope; exit a cardinal.

Saved

by Alex Magno - May 8, 2025 - 12:00am

About 14,000 riders working for Move It can heave a sigh of relief. Transport Secretary Vince Dizon put on hold an LTFRB directive for the firm to drastically reduce the number of motorcycle taxis serving the Metro...

Toxic

by Alex Magno - May 6, 2025 - 12:00am

American voters may not know what to do with the president they returned for a second term. But elsewhere, voters in large numbers reject candidates who even remotely sound like Donald Trump.

Bleaker

by Alex Magno - May 3, 2025 - 12:00am

The world’s economic outlook just got bleaker.

Unenforced

by Alex Magno - May 1, 2025 - 12:00am

At best, it is a futile exercise. At worst, it is a conscious effort at self-deception.

Dynamo

by Alex Magno - April 29, 2025 - 12:00am

He assumed the post burdened with high expectations. He has not disappointed – so far.

Reordering

by Alex Magno - April 26, 2025 - 12:00am

Donald Trump’s pronouncements may swing back and forth like a disoriented pendulum.

Nemesis

by Alex Magno - April 24, 2025 - 12:00am

Donald Trump has met his nemesis – and it is not another country. It is the market: that faceless tangle of independent decision-makers constantly making decisions every minute.

Hustling

by Alex Magno - April 22, 2025 - 12:00am

The powerful syndicates associated with the now-banned POGO operations in the country apparently have long tentacles – and staying power.

Irreversible

by Alex Magno - April 17, 2025 - 12:00am

Chinese netizens, over the past week, released a flurry of videos showing factories producing European luxury goods. Few realize it, but about 80 percent of the priciest luxury items on the market are produced –...

Intersect

by Alex Magno - April 15, 2025 - 12:00am

The views of the Church and rapidly emerging technological developments rarely intersect. But in the case of renewable energy, science and faith weave in tightly.

Broken

by Alex Magno - April 12, 2025 - 12:00am

Rather unsurprisingly, Donald Trump broke and ran on the day his fraudulent “reciprocal tariffs” were supposed to come into effect. He may imagine himself a king, but he could not command the waves....

Improv

by Alex Magno - April 10, 2025 - 12:00am

The global markets are in shambles. We are looking at the greatest self-inflicted wealth destruction ever. No one knows how this will end.

Prostituted

by Alex Magno - April 8, 2025 - 12:00am

From the onset, the party-list system provided for by the 1987 Constitution was problematic. It opened the doors to an extremely elastic definition of what the “marginalized” sectors were that needed...

Inadequate

by Alex Magno - April 5, 2025 - 12:00am

Businesses do not follow the roads.

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