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…
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). …