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In-depth stories and long-form journalism exploring important issues.
We have been taught to recognize heroism by its monuments: a name carved in stone, a face printed in textbooks, a death dramatic enough to become a national memory—but perhaps a country is also built by the people whose names never make it onto one. If the hands that feed, build, clean, carry, and keep the country alive are rarely called heroic, then who exactly gets to be a hero?
Isang taon matapos dukutin sina James Jazmines at Felix Salaveria Jr., nagtagumpay man ang kanilang mga pamilya sa writ of amparo at habeas data, wala pa ring nakikitang mga akusado—at wala pa ring nakikitang sila.
Three months after James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. vanished five days apart in Tabaco City, their families are still waiting for the state to answer for what witnesses and CCTV already show.
Press freedom is celebrated so often that the calendar itself seems crowded with reminders of it. Perhaps that is the cruel irony of commemorating freedom in a country where the press must constantly prove that it is free. How free are we, really?
Nasa hawla si Martha. Pero sino ba talaga ang nagtayo nito? Isang pagsusuri sa 'Sayaw ni Nanay' (BETCo x CEC)—dula ng debosyon, kahirapan, at ng presyong dapat bayaran ng isang ina para lang matawag na mabuti.
Hindi Ingles ang problema. Ang problema ay kung paano natin ito ginawang simbolo ng talino, propesyonalismo, at mataas na antas ng pamumuhay.