Sovereignty First, Justice at Home: Why the Philippines Should Not Surrender Sen. Bato Dela Rosa to the ICC

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa for alleged crimes against humanity linked to his time as Philippine National Police chief during the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. The warrant focuses on his indirect responsibility for killings in that period. Authorities tried to serve it, leading to … Read more

EDITORIAL: The NSCR is a Real Estate Project Disguised as a Railway

The North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) will fail its ridership projections because it is being built to satisfy a twenty-year-old engineering map rather than the current behavior of the Greater Manila workforce. We are spending ₱873 billion to connect Clark to Calamba while the Department of Transportation celebrates a 56 percent land acquisition rate in the … Read more

The Arrest Everyone Notices, The System Nobody Touches

Bong Revilla is in jail again. This is, by now, a familiar sequence: the arrest warrant, the dramatic surrender accompanied by family, the Facebook Live protests of innocence, the supporters outside the detention facility holding candles. He arrived at Camp Crame past 10 p.m. on January 19, his wife and children beside him. It was … Read more