THE PCIJ has just finished a three-part series that looks at the uncanny similarities in the manner in which Ferdinand Marcos and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have attempted to change the constitutions prevailing during their incumbency. The series was...

FREEDOM House has identified the Philippines as among the countries that experienced the most significant declines in press freedom last year. The decline was due to a continued high level of physical violence directed against Filipino journalists and...

EXASPERATED planholders of at least seven failed pre-need companies today banded together to form a coalition that is calling on the government and the pre-need industry to act swiftly on their demands to be paid the tuition that is due them and to punish...

WHILE Malacañang has declared that the "die has been cast" in favor of amending the Constitution, various groups yesterday launched what could be considered as the "widest possible coalition" to stop the administration's so-called "cha-cha...

THE Probe Team, the country's longest-running television newsmagazine, faces an investigation for possible inciting to sedition for airing an interview with an escaped mutineer last week. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez on Tuesday ordered the National...

MARIA Ressa, a former CNN journalist who has covered Southeast Asia for 15 years, tries to debunk what she calls prevaiing myths about terrorism in the region, criticizing both the United States and Southeast Asian governments for their misconceptions...

PERHAPS, Fr. Joaquin Bernas says, it is because of two recent rulings issued by the Supreme Court that he remains optimistic that the high tribunal will shoot down any attempt to revise the 1987 Constitution through a people's initiative. "I don't see...