Complex childhood trauma

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemswoth as Thor It’s just the way life—in the Multiverse or elsewhere—operates. Things don’t always go as planned, even when you think you’ve got your messy life all figured out. In the case of Thor Odinson (Chris Hemsworth, in this fourth solo outing as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s God of Thunder after 2011’s “Thor,” 2013’s “Thor: The Dark … [Read more...] about ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’: Hemsworth, Portman and Bale on reinventing heroes and villains

LAOAG CITY—About 200 employees of the city government briefly left their offices while some skipped lunch on Thursday to gather at Laoag City Multi-Purpose Center and watch on a big screen their “kailian” (province mate), Ferdinand Marcos Jr., being sworn in as the country’s 17th president. The crowd erupted in applause and cheers the moment Mr. Marcos, who served Ilocos … [Read more...] about In Ilocos, hometown cheers for Bongbong Marcos

Communication has never been the Philippine government’s strong suit. This has never been more apparent than in this pandemic. The general lack of accurate, reliable, and easily digestible information from the government has sown the seeds of confusion over quarantine rules, vaccine efficacy, and even the existence of the virus itself. This confusion has only been exacerbated … [Read more...] about Fixing the government’s communication problem