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Last November, Americans sent a clear election message and delivered President Trump a clear mandate: Prices are way too high. While inflation has hit our grocery stores (up 23.6% since 2020) and housing costs (up 30.9% since 2020), there's another ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has a basic idea about everybody on the planet; he believes that people just want to live well in nice housing and safe communities. The world saw that in Singapore in 2018 when Trump met with North Korean ...

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment ...

This past November, I cast a ballot that I never would have expected: I voted for Donald Trump. As a lifelong Democrat, this decision was not rooted in ideology, but instead born of personal frustration with America's broken systems - financial,

In the last few days there has been a torrent of misleading and, in some cases, outright inaccurate information about Social Security and Medicare. It began with Elon Musk, world's richest man and head of the Department of Government Efficiency,

A ne'er do well (or, is that a bon vivant?), a Yale law graduate who was booted from the Navy for failing a cocaine test, bedded his recently widowed sister-in-law, sold childish splashes of paint masquerading as art for millions of dollars, denied ...

Everywhere she goes, PBS CEO Paula Kerger makes the preposterous claim that there's "nothing more American than PBS." That's not an answer to anyone asking about the network's inevitable left-wing tilt. It's a way of changing the subject. Last week,

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade ...

The night before former Vice President Kamala Harris re-emerged on the political scene in a speech rallying Democrats to "lock in" to fight President Trump, one of Trump's top lieutenants issued a warning. If Harris attempts to rehabilitate her ...

The evidence has been conclusive from time immemorial. Economic systems flourish with private incentives that gratify the innate craving for material acquisitions. Adam Smith called it an "invisible hand" in his landmark "Wealth of Nations," gospel ...