The Baybayin on our passport says, “Ang kat'wiran ay nagpapadakila sa isang bayan.” At a time when Spanish authorities were demanding blind obedience, Rizal championed the power of reason as a guide.

As the White House works to take political advantage of the horrific mass shooting in a Michigan church, an expert on the ...

The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America.

Much ink has been spilled over the last decade revealing the ways white evangelical Republicans have descended into the abyss ...

The way I preach it is that God draws straight with crooked lines. God is so powerful that he can create a narrative, a story ...

Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think ...

Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution ...

If you already made significant changes to your home, and it now transpires that you should have sought permission from the ...

Jade Scown takes comfort in the peace and quiet of nature.(ABC News: Mary Lloyd) Jade loves being among the gums near the Murray River.(ABC News: Mary Lloyd) Among the still gums, on a bend in the ...