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HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Critical thinking is perhaps the single-biggest thing that sets students of the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines apart from others. Critical thinking requires academic freedom and other fundamental freedoms both for the teachers and...

HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz An American president once famously described America as a shining city on a hill.  But in 2021, that description seems to have passed with time and circumstance. More facts are coming out of all the videos and documentation coming out of the US Capitol siege. The...

HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and other American leaders have called it an insurrection and domestic terrorism. In a phrase familiar to survivors of US military interventions worldwide, it was an attempted coup d’etat. We never imagined seeing anything like it in...

HOTSPOT Instead of being the issue, why not be a champion of issues this 2020? The new year challenges you to be inspired, instead of getting fed up. Here are six issues where you could be an influencer or ambassador of this 2020: Mass transportation — We must challenge and discard the logic and...

HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz One of the things that people liked about Rodrigo Roa Duterte in 2016 was that he promised “genuine change.” He went on to say that he will be the country’s “first socialist president.” His most ardent supporters even said he will head a “revolutionary government.”...