When inflation targets women
Inflation is often discussed in numbers: percentages, forecasts and policy targets. But behind those figures are lives, and in the Philippines today, it is women in marginalized sectors who are…
The malpractice of speech: How red-tagging inverts the medical oath
Every physician remembers the gravity of the words they spoke upon entering the medical profession. Chief among them, rooted in the Hippocratic tradition, is a foundational baseline of human decency:…
The symptom is opacity, the cure is accountability
I will not write about the ongoing impeachment proceeding definitely not as a lawyer nor political scientist. I will write about it as a community doctor, a defender of women’s…
“No Joke Invictus”
(Kaloi Zarate is a long-time public interest lawyer, a former three-term legislator representing Bayan Muna Partylist and now a Senior partner of the La Vina Zarate and Associates (LVZ Law). …
Marked, collected: The legal novelty of plunder charges against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta
Laws are born in halls of Congress, argued in courts—but lived on the streets. After years inside Congress and courtrooms, I've seen justice get lost in elite bubbles. This column cuts…