Politics, Moderate

Americans Don't Trust Each Other

Politics, Moderate / Ruben Navarrett Jr / Nov 25, 2025

SAN DIEGO -- With all due respect to baseball, the real national pastime is complaining.

Oblivious to how soft and comfortable our lives are compared to those of millions of other people around the world, Americans love to gripe. Whether it's harvest time or not, we make "whine" year-round.

We complain about the weather in the places we ...Read more

Why Trump Lost Latinos -- It's More Than Immigration

Politics, Moderate / Ruben Navarrett Jr / Nov 20, 2025

SAN DIEGO -- Democrats take Latino voters for granted. But Republicans must take us for fools.

Burned by both parties, U.S. Latinos are political nomads who don't feel like we can let our guard down in our own country. In this land of the free, we're in a kind of psychological prison.

Oh, one more thing: We're really pissed off.

If you ...Read more

How President Trump and His Thugs Broke Law Enforcement

Politics, Moderate / Ruben Navarrett Jr / Nov 18, 2025

SAN DIEGO -- My father's love affair with policing was sparked decades ago by a children's book that featured a cat stuck in a tree.

The book was part of a series that was popular in the 1950s. The main characters were two children named Dick and Jane, and they had two pets: a dog and a cat. One day, the cat climbs up a tree. A friendly ...Read more