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The Spark to a Wildfire

Echoes of the River: Naga City's 1972 Tragedy

History tells us that bridges connect people to places, and places to people. Perhaps a bridge’s heaviest weight is not the people who stand on it, but the stories it carries through time. And when one collapses, the weakest link is not always its foundation, but the system entrusted to keep it standing. Do you know the Colgante Bridge?

Having Everything Despite Having Nothing

Awards are renowned for their titles, prestige, and medals. The feeling of returning home with applause and pride that one might believe to be the essence of winning. However, for Juliana Eunice Fuentes, that is not the case. 

Sino Ba Talaga ang Bayani?

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?

Pangangamba, Pag-aalala, Pag-asa: Isang Taong Pakikipaglaban para sa Tabaco Desaparecidos

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.

James, Felix, and the 2,586: Abducted by the State, Failed by the Law

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.

Censored Freedom

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?

Sayaw ni Nanay: Debosyon at ang hubad na katotohanan

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.

Ang Conyo Mo, Pare

Hindi Ingles ang problema. Ang problema ay kung paano natin ito ginawang simbolo ng talino, propesyonalismo, at mataas na antas ng pamumuhay.