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Neric Acosta was congressman from 1998-2007 and principal author of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. He served as secretary-general of the Liberal Party and is current secretary-general of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii where he was an East-West Center doctorate fellow. He teaches at the Ateneo School of Government and Department of Political Science. In 2004 he was named World Fellow of Yale University.

Next big leaps

Campaign 2010 was, for those of us who were in the thick of the process, alternately exhausting and awe-inspiring. Yet while invariably grueling, there was,
 

Noynoy!

Noynoy! Noynoy! People of all ages shriek and howl his name as they reach out for the now ubiquitous yellow wristbands from a convoy of ...
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2009

This column is long overdue and is written in this lull of Christmas week. The past several weeks have been frenzied -- a flurry ...
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Tuloy ang Laban!

Our long journey of a two-dozen vehicle convoy from Davao City to the heartland of Mindanao was marked, in a trip already filled with the ...
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Mourning for Cory, Morning for Country

In the flurry of broadcast news on the day the Filipino people laid to rest President Corazon Aquino, an incredulous and emotion-gripped radio commentator asked: ...
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Yellow Courage

The sadness that millions have in their hearts as they pray for President Cory Aquino, who continues her valiant battle against cancer, casts a pall ...
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Asserting green

It is time to reclaim, redefine, and re-assert the fundamental premise that the environment is the foundation for economic growth and human development. ...
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Chutzpah

It is time not only for the sustained expression of public outrage. It is time to match the Palace's official chutzpah and arrogance of power ...
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Era of low predictability

For a people yearning to cross a threshold next year, hope is alive and well. Low predictability may cause trepidation and anxiety but it is ...
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Social contract

This is something we direly lack and which we desperately need in the country: leaders who own up to their transgressions, who allow the processes ...
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Finally, Some Good News

Note: This online column will appear regularly. For its title, Dean Tony acknowledges Malcolm Gladwell who, in his book The Tipping Point, defined "connectors"

A Crisis, An Opportunity

Two days before the torture video was made public, I was conferring with a colleague and an official of the Aquino administration essentially offering assistance

Media and the Manila Hostage Crisis

Once again, the media is in the media. After audiences worldwide were treated to ringside seat views of the drama as it unfolded last Monday,

Killers, the Police and the State

The main function of the State is to protect the citizens’ right to life, right to private property, and right to liberty. When people have

The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: Nativist Aversion to the Unfamiliar

The intuitive reaction to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is understandably negative. Why build a Muslim place of worship next to a site

COMING HOME FOR P-NOY: Tales from the 2010 Inauguration

My wife and I came to Manila last June 27, 2010, to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Benigno Aquino III as the 15th President of

Brain Gain

In the 1970's, the phenomenon that is international migrant work started to become most palpable to us who are in their late 30's and 40-somethings

Rep. JV Ejercito : Be Heedful of Alvarez’s claims

San Juan City Representative JV Ejercito today urged the Filipino people to be heedful of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez’s claims of fully ‘revamping’ the bureaucracy,

REVOLVING DOORS

Reputation and credibility are very important for media practitioners. They live and build a career on these two elements. What happens then to

Using Smart Power

The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or
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