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This Nov. 14, 2017 photo shows Jaìme Ceja operating a forklift while loading boxes of Red Delicious apples on to a trailer during his shift in an orchard in Tieton, Wash. According to studies in recent years, a reverse flow immigration and an improving economy in Mexico is creating more competition for foreign-born labor in the U.S. (Shawn Gust/Yakima Herald-Republic/via AP)/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

Cracking down on illegal immigration would raise wages for lower-income Americans

President Trump signed so many executive orders on his first two days in office that many Americans were naturally left wondering how his policy changes would affect their everyday lives. One such question looms particularly large: If we deport illegal aliens, who will take their place in working low-skilled jobs?

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the Orion AR glasses during the Meta Connect conference Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Did Trump just save free speech?

President-elect Donald Trump has obliterated the progressive megaplex. From the news media to Silicon Valley -- and even comedy -- Mr. Trump's re-ascension is igniting a new era of free speech and freedom that just months ago seemed incomprehensible.

A rally by U.S. Steel employees is held outside the United Steel Tower in downtown Pittsburgh to display their support for the transaction with Nippon Steel, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pennsylvania workers harmed by Nippon Steel rejection

President Biden's decision to block Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel on national security grounds will have disastrous consequences for some Pennsylvania steelworkers, who will lose their jobs and won't be able to pay their mortgage or rent or support their families.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Large numbers of Americans believe the founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation, and such views are especially strong among Republicans and are being voiced by Trump’s supporters. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Will Trump save Christianity?

In an era of rampant secularism and cultural tides attempting to wipe away public professions of faith, a second Trump administration offers a new political era of promise for the faithful.

Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii, after a meeting about President-elect Donald Trump's planned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Debt enslaves, and that's why politicians like it so much

- The Washington Times

One of President Joe Biden's final kiss-offs to the American people is another $4.28 billion in student loan forgiveness, adding to the nearly $180 billion from that same pot he's gifted to almost 5 million borrowers.That, as the nation's debt soared to $36 trillion; the national deficit, to $1.8 trillion.

The New York Stock Exchange operates during normal business hours in the Financial District, Oct. 13, 2021, in New York. More weakness in technology companies pulled most major stock indexes lower in early trading on Wall Street. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back 0.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue-chip companies managed a tiny gain of 0.1%, pulling just above the record high it set a day earlier. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Blue-chippers avoid ESG investing, realizing it's a money drain

"Blue Chip Companies Are Ditching ESG Terms From Their Loans," reads a Dec. 18 Bloomberg news headline. It's become a trend this year as American investors and companies have realized that environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing produces lower returns and represents a worldview divorced from real science and data.

A Qatari student walks to a building in the Texas A&M University campus at Education City, on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Doha, Qatar. Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old Qatar campus by 2028, with board members noting “heightened instability" in the Middle East as a major reason to reconsider its presence in the country. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Qatar's Education City: An opportunity for students and for the world

It is finals week at most colleges and universities around the United States. It's a week where all of the hard work and effort students have put in for the past 15 weeks either pays off or collapses. It's high pressure. If you've done your homework and have your facts straight, it will likely go well. For most, it's very rewarding, another step on the way to a college degree in the discipline of their choice.

A man crosses a quiet street filled with Christmas lights in central London, Monday November 9, 2020. Wet weather has drenched the London streets during the first full week of a four-week coronavirus lockdown in England, as some are calling to allow businesses to open their doors to kickstart the city economy. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

More road crashes ahead in Britain's dim future

Of all the changes that could be made in the name of fighting climate change, it's hard to imagine something more hazardous than making streets darker at night. Yet that's exactly what the U.K. is about to do.

In this Feb. 18, 2020 file photo, the logo for Walmart appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York. Walmart has ended a partnership with Capital One that made the banking company the exclusive issuer of Walmart’s consumer credit cards. The companies announced the change in a joint statement Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Corporations are finally giving DEI the pink slip

Walmart executives scuttled the company's diversity, equity and inclusion programs last week, becoming the latest corporate giant to drop extreme politics after public outcry.

Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, welcomes incoming Democrat senators in his office Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Washington, from right, Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich, Sen.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., Sen.-elect Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif,  Schumer, Sen.-elect Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., Sen.-elect Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen.-elect Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J. AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Democrats simply cannot be trusted

- The Washington Times

Democrats are currently going through a period of self-reflection, trying to piece together the reasons why they came up so short with voters this time around, even telling The Hill, "We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable." Umm. Du'oh.