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[Rear View] What were you doing in the 90s? Sweating, grumbling, and watching the start of the Marcos Restoration

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[Newspoint] A supreme scandal

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[Vantage Point] The P1-billion layer in the LTO DBP-DCI insurance certificate system

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/vantage-point-lto-motor-vehicle-certificate-dbp-dci-insurance/

[In This Economy] Beware the allure of price caps on fuel and food

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[In This Economy] Beware the allure of price caps on fuel and food

When prices are rising and people are hurting, politicians want to be seen doing something. Price controls are visible, immediate, easy to explain, and therefore popular. But the economics is clear: they almost always create more problems than they solve.

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[OPINION] Bowels of the earth, limitless energy source

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[OPINION] Bowels of the earth, limitless energy source

With more than 20 active volcanoes and more than 40 potentially active volcanoes, the Philippines can develop geothermal energy as a major contributor to the national energy mix

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[Time Trowel] The precolonial Filipino you’re looking for never existed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-search-authentic-precolonial-filipino/

[OPINION] Why Malacañang is wrong about the wealth tax

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[OPINION] Why Malacañang is wrong about the wealth tax

When a handful of families control wealth equivalent to a significant chunk of the national GDP while the majority of Filipinos struggle with inflation, the harm is not in taxing the rich, but in failing to do so.

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[Vantage Point] The insensitivity of Customs’ ITAMSS push: Why pay if you can get it free?

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[Vantage Point] The insensitivity of Customs’ ITAMSS push: Why pay if you can get it free?

The Customs bureau is proposing a new digital tracking system called ITAMSS that will cost P2.6 billion annually, even though there's an alternative, cost-free system

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[OPINION] Another year, another emergency, another crisis

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[OPINION] Another year, another emergency, another crisis

Oil crisis exposes lack of foresight, long-term planning

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[OPINION] Reimagining People Power: An intergenerational perspective

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[OPINION] Reimagining People Power: An intergenerational perspective

If Philippine progressives are serious about changing Philippine politics for the better, they have three main tasks for 2026

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