When Donald Trump signed an executive order last week cracking down on truckers who don't speak the best English, there was one industry expert I needed to call: my dad.

Lorenzo Arellano drove big rigs across Southern California for 30 years before retiring in 2019. His six-day workweeks kept us well-fed and clothed and allowed him to afford a ...Read more

Media coverage of President Donald Trump’s recommended Department of Energy budget has been predictably negative. It has focused heavily on his proposed cuts, with the word “slash” appearing in numerous headlines. But his budget is more accurately described as a major policy shift—and a very beneficial one.

If Congress passes this ...Read more

A recent executive order to dismantle the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is another policy change in America's long history of systematically suppressing minority economic advancement. This decision, which threatens to unravel decades of progress in fostering minority entrepreneurship, demands immediate attention and action.

Since ...Read more

The greenback sank against the British pound Tuesday as the United Kingdom signed a new, tariff-busting trade deal with India that is a prime new example of how countries around the world can work around the United States and its tariff-obsessed president.

India and the United Kingdom are the fifth and sixth largest economies in the world and ...Read more

PARIS — Au revoir, America. Bonjour, tristesse, France. If that's overstated, it's not by over-much.

Here in April, in the month and the place of falling rain and falling in love, I found that the rain had not changed much — but the "love" part had.

If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation as...Read more

Donald Trump held his first major rally of the 2024 campaign in Texas. But he gave a shoutout from the stage to Georgia’s U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had traveled with him.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, you happen to be here,” Trump said with a smile. “Would you like to run for the Senate? I will fight like hell for you, I tell ...Read more

Unable to make a case in court against Kilmar Abrego García, the man illegally deported to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, federal investigators have focused on smearing his character. Their target now: a traffic stop in Tennessee three years ago that ended without major incident and does not appear to have attracted much law ...Read more

America’s mass transit agencies are teetering on the brink of collapse. The money they got from Congress to help them through COVID-19 is running out, but ridership remains below what it was before the pandemic.

Lower fare revenue plus higher wage costs equals a bigger deficit. Unless state governments fill that gap, agencies will need to ...Read more

Waste, fraud and abuse. These are the seemingly magic words the world’s richest man incants to justify the chainsaw he’s taking to our government in the form of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

However, as Elon Musk steps back to a part-time role, the question remains: Were these words a mantra or mere flimflam?

The Trump ...Read more

Critics swing between accusing the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of overreach and declaring it a failure at cutting government.

Here are some reality checks:

DOGE-like efforts are not new. George H.W. Bush’s Council on Competitiveness was created to ease regulatory burdens. Led by Vice President Dan Quayle, it ...Read more

We humans, if we are to live intentional and thoughtful lives, almost always return to a series of timeless questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

To answer those questions some turn to religion. Some to psychology. Some to literature. And others to history, philosophy or the arts.

I have spent 30 years as a ...Read more