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‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million
According to a recent report from the Utah legislative auditor general, the state’s higher education system lost over $830,000 in recent years to “ghost students” who apply to receive financial aid and run off with the money without pursuing a degree. “Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: President Trump Sparked the Counterrevolution to End the Destruction of America
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’d like to speak today about revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about… -
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Want to Rebuild Higher Education? Here Is the Guidebook
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America—a boom in its boom-and-bust cycle, as my colleague Robert Stilson calls it—has many political observers on the right and the left analyzing the conditions that led to an embrace of that group’s radicalism. And it is radical. As Stilson points out, “[i]n its newly updated platform, the DSA… -
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From Viral Hearings to Key Bills, Brandon Gill’s Doing What It Takes to ‘Save the Country’
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is a freshman congressman known for his viral moments at Capitol Hill hearings. He had another such moment Tuesday as he sweetly, but devastatingly, dissected the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History over her woke stewardship of the taxpayer-funded entity. Shortly after the exchange, Gill spoke with… -
opinion
K-12 Schools in California Need a DEI Audit
Watchdogs are discovering racist school curricula around the country, and these investigations can’t move fast enough. Kentucky and Indiana schools have been under the spotlight this summer, revealing the worst fears of American parents. The next stop should be California. In July, the Indiana Family Institute and the Kentucky state auditor released audits on schools… -
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Democrat Gov. Denied: Kids’ Educational Scholarships Are Saved
Pennsylvania’s Republican-led Legislature has successfully pushed back against Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cut two scholarship programs from the 2026–27 budget. Shapiro’s original budget proposal, HB 2632, called for eliminating two programs: the Educational Improvement Tax Credit and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit. The Pennsylvania Legislature successfully amended the budget to maintain the original scholarships and… -
opinion
American Psychological Association Pushes Bias on College Campuses
Professional associations drive progressive bias into college classrooms, and this needs to stop. Accreditation is not just a tiresome administrative routine. It’s a seal of approval that drives access to student loans, official diplomas, and occupational licenses. The Trump administration’s work to reform accreditation should give lawmakers new energy to challenge progressive orthodoxy. Start with the American… -
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If We Don’t Teach Liberty to the Next Generation, We’ll Lose It
As America begins its next 250 years, conservatives face a challenge that cannot be solved by winning the upcoming election cycle alone. We must win the next generation. For decades, conservatives have rightly fought to reduce taxes, restrain government, protect constitutional liberties, and defend free markets. Those battles remain essential. But they will ultimately prove… -
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These 2 Companies Control 90% of a Critical Market. Now Congress Wants Answers.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two private companies currently dominate more than 90% of the proxy advisory market, controlling significant influence over corporate America, and Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, is demanding answers. In a letter obtained by the Daily Signal to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Andrew N. Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jackson points to specific examples of… -
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Gwen Graham, Possible Fl. Lt. Gov, Oversaw Transgender Bathroom, Pronouns and School Choice Policy
Gwen Graham, a former one-term congresswoman who oversaw the implementation of transgender bathroom school policies and the dismantlement of school choice initiatives under President Joe Biden, has been announced as the running mate for Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate David Jolly. Graham, who previously ran for Florida’s governor’s mansion in 2018 and served as assistant secretary… -
opinion
Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is About Duty, Loyalty, and Family
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. Christopher Nolan, the renowned British director, has a new film coming out, another remake of “The Odyssey” by Homer. It’s supposed… -
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School Daze
A Virginia elementary school teacher was tasked with also providing counseling to students who wanted to discuss their sexuality as part of a public-school division’s efforts to be “inclusive” of LGBTQ+ feelings. He had the title “Social Emotional Learning coach.” Did we mention this was at an elementary school? But wait, there’s more. Absurd as… -
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New Kentucky Audit Shows Why Families Need Education Freedom
Kentucky State Auditor Allison Ball’s recent report on Jefferson County Public Schools should alarm every taxpayer and parent in the state. Not only because of the report’s contents, but also because JCPS is the state’s largest school district, serving 1 in 7 students in Kentucky. The audit not only highlights the dire financial situation the… -
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In Texas, Parental Rights Are Only as Strong as the Parents Willing to Enforce Them
In 2025, Texas did something parents had spent years demanding: It wrote parents back into their own children’s education. In a single session, lawmakers passed a package of parental rights bills, handed parents real control over the books that sit on school library shelves, and ordered the state to spell out those rights in plain… -
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Gill: ‘Intellectually Incoherent’ Democrats Defending DEI Are on the ‘Wrong Side’
Congressional Republicans are still fighting against illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies entrenched in American education institutions. At a congressional hearing on Tuesday titled “Combating DEI in American Institutions,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, analyzed how DEI is illegal and ineffective. After the hearing, he told the Daily Signal that the “intellectually incoherent [Democrats]” were defending… -
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New York Times Countersues Trump Admin in DEI Hiring Case
The New York Times filed a countersuit in response to litigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the media outlet of discriminatory hiring practices. The EEOC sued the Times in May, alleging it discriminated against a white male editor seeking a promotion. The commission asserted that the Times bypassed its standard interview process in… -
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Indiana Watchdog Releases DEI Audit. This Is a Model for States Across the US.
Last year, many Indiana public school teachers promised to end racist diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in schools. If successful, such assurances and the policies that follow would be models for other states. How’s it going? Turns out, the racism in public education runs deep. This week, the Indiana Family Institute released an audit of… -
opinion
What DEI Means to You
To most Americans, diversity, equity, and inclusion is an abstract, boring idea they don’t have time to worry about. But I’ve written a book on it—“The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)”—and I’m here to tell you why you should be paying attention to DEI. DEI means that when you apply for a job… -
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Education Committee Vows to Shift Remaining Ed Dept. Tasks, Programs to HHS, DOJ
A key House committee has rolled out plans to delegate some of the Department of Education’s remaining tasks to other federal agencies, and the measure could reach the chamber floor for a vote as soon as Wednesday. The 10 bills included in the legislative package, released last week by House Education and the Workforce Committee… -
opinion
Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
In 2024, a Tunisian biological male defeated a Chinese woman for Olympic women’s boxing gold. The spectacle shocked the world and renewed calls to protect single-sex women’s sports. Yet defending such boundaries in the U.S. under today’s civil rights regime is harder than it should be. Decades of Title IX enforcement have turned a seemingly…