Official positions and perspectives from ThePILLARS editorial board.
As the President delivers his State of the Nation Address, two conflicting narratives clash—one of development, and one of struggle; one of deception, and one of reality.
The Philippine Senate does not need to be fixed. It needs to be pressured. From Bato dela Rosa's months-long absence to leadership coups timed around impeachment proceedings, the institution has made visible what structural critics have long argued: the chamber governs not for the Filipino people, but for the elite factions that produced it.
One year after Duterte’s arrest, the central question confronting the country is whether the system of violence and political tolerance for killings that flourished during his administration can truly be dismantled.
