Democracy in the age of cat filters
In the Philippines today, the Constitution may still define legislators as public servants, but TikTok has quietly revised the job description: you’re now expected to be part-time content creator, full-time
In the Philippines today, the Constitution may still define legislators as public servants, but TikTok has quietly revised the job description: you’re now expected to be part-time content creator, full-time
History’s most unforgiving moments often birth the tenderest stories. When life has been stripped to its rawest edge—when freedom is traded for confinement, when childhood unfolds within fences of barbed
From Martial Law to the present, the rally has never been a mere convergence of bodies. It is choreography: the repetition of steps rehearsed against silence. It is an archive:
September 20 arrives every year, and with it, the International Day of University Sport—a global observance first declared by UNESCO and the International University Sports Federation (FISU). Elsewhere, the date
For a few hours on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, a rally can feel like a country within a country, a fleeting republic conjured not by law but by bodies and
On the afternoon of September 12, 2025, a few hours of rain were enough to bring parts of Quezon City to a halt. Major thoroughfares turned into waist-deep streams of
Summers are greedy little things. They hoard your attention with their golden hours and then, without apology, expire. The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han’s trilogy-turned-Prime-series, understood this cruelty and
Filipino pole vault ace EJ Obiena marked his competitive return after a two-month hiatus with a bronze-medal performance at the World Athletics Continental Tour in China, vaulting 5.65 meters, September
Two Filipino fighters kept the nation’s medal hopes intact at the 2025 World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, while three others were forced to make early exits. Southeast Asian Games silver
Max Verstappen wrestled back control of the Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, converting pole into his third win of the 2025 Formula 1 season, September 7. Verstappen was