National Affairs — The Navarro Report The legal battle over President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order has entered its most consequential phase yet, and California sits squarely in the crosshairs. […]
Washington’s “Biggest Oil Deal in History” Ties Gas Prices to Venezuela’s Fragile Recovery
World Affairs — The Navarro Report President Trump announced Friday that the United States has secured majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, a […]
Remittances to El Salvador Keep Climbing Even as U.S. Immigration Enforcement Intensifies
SAN SALVADOR — Money sent home by Salvadorans living in the United States continues to rise even as the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement intensifies, a counterintuitive trend that economists attribute […]
Florida’s Post-Surfside Reforms Are Reshaping Miami’s Condo Market, and Squeezing Retirees
MIAMI — Four years after the Surfside condominium collapse killed 98 people, the wave of structural-safety reforms enacted in its aftermath has fully arrived in Miami-Dade’s condo resale market, and […]
South County’s Political Order Gets Scrambled Days Before the Filing Deadline
SAN DIEGO — A wave of last-minute retirements, entrances, and withdrawals has upended the political landscape across San Diego County’s southern, border-adjacent cities just as candidate filing closed for November’s […]
Newsom’s Tariff Hedge on Canada Signals Political Calculation Ahead of 2028
SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom drew sharp scrutiny this week after declining to guarantee that a future Democratic administration would roll back President Trump’s steep new tariffs on Canadian […]
Supreme Court’s Mail-Ballot Order Leaves California’s Midterm Election Machinery in Legal Limbo
WASHINGTON/SACRAMENTO — A Supreme Court order this week has thrown the rules governing mail-in ballots for the November midterms into a state of prolonged uncertainty, and California, home to one […]
Meta’s $17 Billion Reckoning Sets a New Global Standard for Child Safety Online
OAKLAND, Calif. — Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle claims from 47 states that its Instagram and Facebook platforms were deliberately engineered to hook adolescent […]
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Is Losing Money — And Testing the IMF’s Patience
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Is Losing Money — And Testing the IMF’s Patience By Jose Navarro, MBA President Nayib Bukele’s government secured a $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility from the […]
Follow the Money: Who’s Funding Miami-Dade’s Commissioners, and Why
By Jose Navarro, MBA Every election cycle, Miami-Dade County’s thirteen commissioners and its mayor raise money from a remarkably consistent donor base: developers, government contractors, lobbyists, and the firms competing […]