THUCYDIDES warned that the rise of a new power unsettles an old order and makes conflict more likely. Our Harvard professor Graham Allison’s modernized that lesson as the “Thucydides Trap” — a reminder that the rivalry between a rising China…

LAST week, I covered Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s exposé on how human actions turn floods into disasters. Today’s column focuses on the dramatis personae — legislators, Cabinet members, government officials and local authorities involved in corruption — who exploit the…