A recent Pulse Asia survey shows people who do not welcome President Duterte’s desired shift to a federal system of government have increased in number. Maybe because amending the 1987 Constitution to ...

What do many economists and bishops in the Philippines have in common? For one thing, they agree that a proposal by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to shift from the current unitary to ...

Calls for Constitutional reform are growing louder, and it is easy to see why. Many Filipinos experience government as slow to decide, weak in execution and quick to dodge responsibility when things ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ran on the “Partido Federal ng Pilipinas” platform. One can argue that he won not because of the interest the party represented but because he was — and is — popular, ...