The map does not feed the fisherfolk
Before lawyers draw lines on a map, there is a fisherman trying to find his way home. That thought stayed with me after speaking recently before Filipino and Vietnamese lawyers,…
Earthquakes and false equivalences: The ground still moves
Three months after the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake of June 8 Southern Mindanao was shaken awake again. On Tuesday evening Sept. 1 another earthquake struck offshore near Balut Island. Initially…
BISDAK Lost ’n Translation: But Where’s the 125M?
On Day 16 of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, the impeachment court suddenly found itself debating Cebuano, the lingua franca of the Bisdaks (Bisayang Dako or…
Beyond system loss: Filipinos need system change
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s call in his fifth State of the Nation Address to stop passing system loss charges and their corresponding Value-Added Tax (VAT) on to electricity consumers is…
When Romanov fell
For nearly a week, the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte seemed trapped in a maze of technicalities. Every typographical error became a battlefield. Every procedural defect threatened to…