IT came as a bit of a surprise when I received my latest assignment from my editors: I was to cover the launch of the 3rd edition of the Gender and Development Glossary of the international newswire Inter Press Service (IPS). The book, I was told, is...

The last part of our three-part series on the audit of the election expense reports of the candidates looks at how candidates have run circles around campaign finance laws. The Commission on Elections is first to admit that it has no idea how to carry out...

Part 2 of our three-part report on the audit of the election expense reports of the candidates looks at how top bets for president and vice president conspired with party-list groups to get around caps on election spending. Presumably the defenders of the...

Our latest offering is a three-part report on our audit of the Statement of Electoral Contribution and Expenditure (SECE) that the top candidates for president  and vice president in May 2010 elections had filed with the Commission on Elections...