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The Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa with a panoramic view overlooking the vineyards of Napa Valley, appears to be first-rate in all ways but one. While the glamorous resort, an hour’s drive from San Francisco, fills rooms that routinely go for $2,000 a night with A-list celebrities and tech titans, financial records… Continue reading Nancy Pelosi Profited as Luxury Napa Resort Won COVID-19 Bailout

Just weeks before President-elect Trump announced that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would be his nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Bhattacharya and I were together at Stanford University for a bold, first-of-its-kind symposium on public health decision making during the COVID-19 crisis. The idea behind the symposium was to shatter the public health… Continue reading Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Will Rebuild Trust in Public Health

Logansport, Indiana, seems like the perfect place to test Donald Trump’s claim that an influx of migrants is a major reason housing prices and rents are soaring in America. The heartland town with a population of 18,200 has seen an influx of between 2,000 and 5,000 Haitian immigrants during the last few years, all of… Continue reading Do Illegal Migrants Drive Up Housing Costs? It’s Complicated

In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump’s historic victory, I’ve walked the streets of Miami, talking to the people who shape our future, about the future. I listened to a young couple who had just opened a small café—its tables filled with neighbors eager to support their new venture. I spoke with a college student… Continue reading America Is Ready for a New Chapter and Restoration of the American Dream

There can be little doubt that the recent election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States has unleashed a fair degree of animal spirits in the financial markets and in corporate America.  Some of this could simply be a function of the fact that a chaotic and sometimes frightening election is… Continue reading The Potential Power of DOGE

Mason Bogard was 15 when he told his parents he loved them and went upstairs to take a shower and head to bed. Less than an hour later, they found him dead on the floor of his bedroom, a belt around his neck.    Mason had attempted the viral Tik Tok “choking challenge” where kids… Continue reading Pass the Kids Online Safety Act Before It’s Too Late

Critics of President-elect Trump assert that mass deportation is morally wrong for two reasons: first, Trump’s plan is said to be overbroad and will deport people indiscriminately; second, Trump’s plan will cause unjust suffering for those affected. Let us address each objection in turn. The idea that mass deportation will be indiscriminate is false. Since… Continue reading Restore the American Spirit | RealClearPolicy

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias had a rough election. Several of his clients, notably Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, fell to defeat. But instead of accepting their losses, Elias disputed the presidential and senatorial results in Pennsylvania, leading to charges that Elias, a self-advertised “democracy defender,” is what he’s accused Donald Trump of… Continue reading After 2024 Losses, Hardball Democrat Lawyer Marc Elias Vows to Fight Back in ’26 and ’28

Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago while opposing motions to delay trials because of the… Continue reading Nearly 4 Years Later, No Letup in Jan. 6 Prosecutions, Possible Pardons or Not

In August, the nation’s second-largest school district announced a major policy shift that caused the soon-to-be-unemployed minds at the Los Angeles Times editorial board to collectively explode last month. Why? Because in the wake of a federal civil rights complaint filed by Parents Defending Education in 2023, the U.S. Department of Education forced the Los… Continue reading Nation’s Second Largest School District Revises Race-Based Grant Program