Data DOCUMENT: SOCE of 2025 senatorial candidatesby Carmela S. Fonbuena July 3, 2025 ...

At the core of the resistance on the island are at least three indigenous families who have lived on Mariahangin for generations, primarily relying on fishing and agar-agar (seaweed) farming for their ...

Eight years after the May 23, 2017 siege of Marawi City, residents voted to further consolidate the Gandamra family’s political influence, amid mixed opinions on social media over who bears ...

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has identified over a hundred Facebook pages presenting themselves as media outlets but are actually running political ads for national and ...

Camille Villar, the fourth in her family to seek a seat in the Senate, continued to outspend her rivals in advertising spending on traditional media, largely on TV and radio. She has run ads worth ...

Bicol, home to the majestic Mount Mayon, is among the country’s most disaster-prone regions. It is regularly battered by storms and other calamities that test the resilience of its people year after ...

How did Vico Sotto end the Eusebios’ rule in Pasig City? Can it be done elsewhere? He bears a popular surname and he’s connected to an existing dynasty in Quezon City. But we should not forget that he ...

The Cordillera region remains largely rooted in its communal and participatory indigenous forms of governance. Where political dynasties exist, they are generally ‘thin’—except in two provinces where ...

Like many readers, I was deeply touched by Columbia University investigative journalism professor Sheila Coronel’s story “The Making of Edgar Matobato.” Published as a longform piece by the Philippine ...

Few photojournalists covered former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody campaign against illegal drugs as extensively as Vincent Go. In this photo essay, he collaborates with the Philippine Center for ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has made it a campaign promise to bring down rice prices to P20 per kilogram. Yet the first half of his term saw the highest rice prices in years, forcing the government ...

These excerpts from Ransomed by Love by Antonio La Viña, former dean of the Ateneo School of Government, are published by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism with permission from the ...