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"Sustainability" investments became popular a few years back. So-called experts said companies shouldn't just focus on profit. They should put more effort into being "nice." Funds pushing ESG (environmental, social and governance) were all the rage. Giant investment firms like BlackRock pressured companies to hire more women and minorities. CEO ...Read more

When President Donald Trump gave his inaugural address in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, he included an explanation of his trade policy.

"I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and their families," he said.

How will he do this? By imposing tariffs on imports.

"Instead of taxing our citizens to ...Read more

Even on Inauguration Day, you can count on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio to act like a hive of Democrats. It's not surprising. As longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner reported last year, he investigated D.C. voting records and found "87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans."

On "Morning Edition" before ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My wife and I have tried to teach our kids to be good losers but also -- and just as importantly -- gracious winners.

Apparently, President Donald Trump never learned either lesson. His brattish reaction to his defeat in 2020 showed us that he's a terrible loser. And now that he has reclaimed the White House, we see that he's ...Read more

Donald Trump's job is to make America great again. Improving your own life is up to you.

There are lots of reasons to be excited about Trump's return to power. He's pledged to unleash America's energy industry. Cheaper energy and a better regulatory environment should help contain inflation. The border will be locked down while officials ...Read more

Steven Rinella is taking his skills as a survivalist, thrill-seeker and master storyteller to the History Channel for a new eight-part series that will take viewers on an outdoor adventure steeped in history while trying to solve some of America's most enduring mysteries. The series begins on Jan. 28.

"In the life I've spent in the outdoors, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump got straight to the point when he delivered his Inaugural Address Monday inside the Capitol. There are things he wants to do in the next four years.

But of course on this cold Monday, Trump could not fail to mention his own personal triumph --winning in 2024 after losing reelection in 2020, two ...Read more

It's just about time for Inauguration weekend 2025. I'm excited to say I'll be there to witness history.

And guess who's back in charge?

Donald J. Trump, the legend, is about to take back the White House and the entire U.S. government, from the deep state, D.C. swamp, the radical communist traitors of the Democrat Party and their brain-dead, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- There has been a lot of talk lately about the need to return respect and civility to politics.

Although I'm not sure I buy into the premise that those things were ever really part of politics, I welcome the sentiment nonetheless.

We should start with Senate confirmation hearings, if it's not already too late. There is too much ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Hyperbolic conservatives have long claimed that Mexico is staging an "invasion" of the United States.

For more than three decades, I've mocked these fools for their ignorance. But now I stand corrected. It's really happening. The Mexicans are actually invading, and they're starting by reclaiming the stolen parcel of land known as...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The media was too quick to move on from a recent MAGA civil war over H-1B visas, which allow companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers to fill specialty occupations.

We're not done yet. This is just the beginning of an argument that is likely to last all through President-elect Donald Trump's final term in office.

As will...Read more

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- I try not to criticize my country, or my countrymen, while standing on foreign soil. But I'll make an exception.

A lot of Americans have an annoying habit of feeling really passionate about subjects they don't really understand. What we lack in knowledge and wisdom, we make up for in ego and self-confidence.

In that ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anything that is complicated.

First, as storytellers, we're drawn to the complicated.

Second, as journalists, we're paid to simplify the complicated.

Third, as mostly linear thinkers, we often struggle to break down and explain whatever is complicated...Read more

Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it’s completely ignored and you only notice it when it’s removed.

This is exactly what occurred to me when I observed the manufactured controversy involving Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post editorial board. The Amazon wunderkind’s ...Read more

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Here in sunny Los Angeles, it’s raining.

It’s too bad it didn’t rain real hard last Saturday.

It might have helped firefighters put out the enormous fire under the 10 Freeway near downtown before the heat weakened the pillars and forced the highway to be closed.

The fire – which officials now ...Read more