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Catharsis

by Tony Lopez - September 26, 2026 - 12:00am

From ancient Greek tragedies is the word called catharsis.

Toxic Sara

by Tony Lopez - September 24, 2026 - 12:00am

In my 56 years of journalism, I have never seen a political personality who has so riven the body politic as to divide, bitterly, the nation at large.

Truth, fairness, common sense

by Tony Lopez - September 22, 2026 - 12:00am

Truth, fairness, common sense.

The fall of Sara and Martin

by Tony Lopez - September 19, 2026 - 12:00am

By yearend, two of the most powerful political personalities and dynasties in the Philippines would have fallen, from the dizzying height of a breathtaking pinnacle of power to the ravine of ignominy and disgrace...

Bastos

by Tony Lopez - September 17, 2026 - 12:00am

Bastos.

The gravest threat

by Tony Lopez - September 15, 2026 - 12:00am

A grave threat is a grave issue these days.

Leadership lessons from Marcos

by Tony Lopez - September 12, 2026 - 12:00am

Serve your country, serve your people.

When the high and mighty fall

by Tony Lopez - September 10, 2026 - 12:00am

What a thrilling moment in Philippine history.

Afraid na afraid

by Tony Lopez - September 8, 2026 - 12:00am

Suing Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte before a Quezon City regional trial court for three counts of grave threats (Article 282 of the Revised Penal Code) was a masterstroke, legally and politically. For these...

Floods

by Tony Lopez - September 5, 2026 - 12:00am

Almost always, when it rains, the ancient town of Bulakan in Bulacan province gets flooded.

Army intelligence

by Tony Lopez - September 3, 2026 - 12:00am

Can you believe that among our best, fightingest, most experienced, most-be-medalled, most battle-tested and most intelligent officers of the land did not have enough intelligence and common sense to determine that...

Two tragedies

by Tony Lopez - September 1, 2026 - 12:00am

Two disasters have riveted the Filipino consciousness lately.

Aliases and thieves

by Tony Lopez - August 29, 2026 - 12:00am

In a touch of irony or poetic justice, the senator who harangued prosecution lawyer Mae Divinagracia last week on the use of aliases when at war is named after an alias – Robinhood Padilla.

Four positive economic developments

by Tony Lopez - August 27, 2026 - 12:00am

Amid a seemingly clouded if unpredictable economic environment, four good things have stood out lately:

Two-thirds to punish a scam

by Tony Lopez - August 25, 2026 - 12:00am

Seventeen so-called senator-judges showed up at the resumption yesterday, Tuesday, Aug. 24, of the trial of twice impeached Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte.

The Odyssey: A tale of abandoned wives

by Tony Lopez - August 22, 2026 - 12:00am

“If you’ve felt abandoned in your marriage, then you are Penelope in The Odyssey,” writes my daughter, a lawyer, in her BizNewsAsia column.

Pax Silica

by Tony Lopez - August 20, 2026 - 12:00am

On Aug. 14, the Senate committees on the environment and natural resources and finance conducted a five-hour hearing on the hottest and most controversial economic and investment idea of the day – Pax Sil...

Bastos

by Tony Lopez - August 18, 2026 - 12:00am

Bastos.

Nilustay ng bruha

by Tony Lopez - August 15, 2026 - 12:00am

What or how would you feel if a third or a fourth of your annual income was given away by Sara Duterte to somebody you did not know from Adam, somebody the government itself has said it has no record of having been...

The new Supreme Court

by Tony Lopez - August 13, 2026 - 12:00am

Like all once immutable age-old institutions, the 125-year-old Supreme Court of the Philippines is undergoing an unprecedented modernization and transformation, thanks to the five-year Strategic Plan for Judicial...

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