Political Commentary & Opinion

In the investment and financial services industry, the dominant players like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are beholden to stakeholder activism, which drives them to a greater focus on leftist ideas like DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and ESG—environmental, social, and corporate governance. Strive takes a different approach. It’s focused on maximizing value for investors—and it’s having…

As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. It seems that liberal politicians who sowed the specious seeds of their version of “criminal justice reform” in blue cities across the country now don’t like their crop: high crime rates. Gallup polls show that 63% of Americans think the crime problem is “extremely or…

The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse, you’ll be ruined. You have little recourse. You’ve never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea, and a political appointee signed…

Is 2024 the year of polyamory? “How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?” wonders The New Yorker in a late December article. The New York Times gushes in a Jan. 13 article: “How a Polyamorous Mom Had ‘a Big Sexual Adventure’ and Found Herself.” More articles rapidly followed. New York Magazine’s Jan. 16 cover article was…

It seems many still harbor, or want to perpetuate, the illusion that our Social Security system is not in trouble. Let me quote here from a press release from the Social Security Administration released March 31, 2023: The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the Social…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, “urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” according to a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his capacity as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of…

This week, I visited Auschwitz. I never before had visited any of the death camps. The experience is absolutely chilling. Auschwitz, of course, was a complex of camps, the three largest of which were Auschwitz I, the camp most famous for the terrifyingly Orwellian German slogan welded onto its entrance, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI”; Auschwitz II,…

The percentage of workers who belong to unions in the U.S. notched down to a record-low 10.0% in 2023, from 10.1% in 2022. The peak for unionization in the U.S. was about 35% in the mid-1950s. Even more noteworthy is the shrinking gap between union and nonunion wages, which fell to a record-low of 15.0%…

Navy SEAL deployments are often long and grueling, and leaving school-age children behind only adds to the challenge, especially if the children are struggling in school.  If a father is “getting ready to go on mission, and there’s Timmy failing in second grade, that’s all he’s going to think about,” says Gretchen McIntosh, the executive…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks by Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, delivered at the 2024 National Pro-Life Summit, hosted by Students for Life of America, on Saturday at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C. Look, thanks for inviting me to be here. What a tremendous program and…

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently rattled the GOP when he vetoed HB 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The bill would have both protected fairness in women’s sports and prohibited cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and body-modifying gender-related surgeries for minors under the age of 18. Shortly after his veto, however, DeWine issued…