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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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