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In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man passes a clothing shop with open signs in the window in Calexico, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Reasons to be cheerful — and worried

Hugo Gurdon · May 5, 2021 8:00 pm

In this Aug. 22, 2018, file photo a chart on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the rise of the S&P 500 index since 2009. Once derided as fads that would force investors to settle for lower returns, funds that take into account environmental, social and corporate-governance issues have held up better than traditional funds this year. It's the latest march forward for what are known as ESG funds, and the industry expects the flow of dollars to accelerate into the field.

Beltway Confidential

The SEC should embrace financial principles, not progressive activism

Mark J. Perry · May 5, 2021 5:59 pm

The CIA goes woke

Becket Adams · May 4, 2021 9:20 pm

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., accompanied by Republican Senators speaks at a news conference to announce a Republican police reform bill on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington.

GOP finds success with ‘anti-woke’ agenda

Sarah Bedford · May 4, 2021 11:00 am

Government for the few

Eddie Scarry · April 30, 2021 3:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

A candid conversation with Rep. Mike Waltz, Congress’s only combat-decorated Green Beret

Jamie McIntyre · April 30, 2021 3:00 am

Republicans, too, should wake up to Carville’s cry against ‘wokeness’

Quin Hillyer · April 28, 2021 9:05 am

Beltway Confidential

Carville says Louisiana choked on over-wokeness. Is he right?

Quin Hillyer · April 26, 2021 5:32 pm

MLB commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. talks to the media before Game 2 of the baseball World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in Houston.

Magazine - Columnists

Stop letting woke victimologists harm minorities

Wayne Laugesen · April 16, 2021 3:00 am

In this Feb. 24, 2015 photo, students walk through the Warren College and Moore College area at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt is one of a small but growing number of U.S. colleges and universities that have embraced a "residential college" model where students become part of a close-knit but diverse community that enhances both their academic and social lives.

When the social justice mob came for me

Jordan Gould · April 13, 2021 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Eddie Izzard may be a transvestite, but the actor is no lady

Quin Hillyer · April 12, 2021 10:18 pm

The Finance Committee will hold a hearing on a bipartisan tax bill that would expand the child tax credit and includes business provisions

Democratic councilwoman ordered to pay $47,000 for filing frivolous restraining orders

Tori Richards · April 10, 2021 12:18 am