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opinion
Environmentalists Put Left-Wing Partisanship Before Restoration
Environmental protection is long, hard work, and it usually involves managing complex systems. If politics takes center stage—as it did at this year’s Everglades Coalition conference—then communication breaks down, and systems begin to suffer. Unlike in previous years, several agencies and state officials that have historically participated in the conference chose not to attend in… -
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Columbus Legislation on ICE Represents a ‘Dangerous Direction’
The Columbus, Ohio, City Council unveiled legislation last Tuesday, sparking heated debate on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role as well as what constitutes sanctuary city policies. One proposal would prohibit Columbus police from entering into enforcement agreements with ICE, as ABC 6 highlighted. Regarding such a provision, a representative from Councilmember Lourdes Barroso de Padilla’s… -
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New Poll Shows What Virginians Think About Redistricting
Virginia voters are more likely to oppose than support Democrats’ push for congressional redistricting, a newly released poll suggests. Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Legislature has approved legislation that would likely make 10 of the state’s 11 House districts favorable for Democrats. The state’s U.S. House delegation is currently made up of six Democrats and five Republicans. In… -
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$1 Billion on the Line as Supreme Court Could Rewrite US-Cuba Lawsuits
Justices heard arguments Monday in two disputes involving U.S.-Cuba relations that could be worth more than $1 billion. Oil giant ExxonMobil is a plaintiff in one of the cases, while major cruise lines, led by Royal Caribbean, are defendants in the other. A majority of justices seemed poised to side with ExxonMobil, while both conservative… -
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‘You Owe Us’ Is the Mantra of the Left
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Two things that came together for me. One was [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani’s… -
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Voter ID Is Perfectly Normal Worldwide
Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York relentlessly smears the GOP-sponsored SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0.” This bill requires that citizens show photo ID to vote in federal elections. Schumer mendaciously decries this as the Republicans’ freshest flavor of hate, aimed chiefly at blacks. The GOP, Schumer insinuates, stole this idea from Bull Connor,… -
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Transparency in Coverage Can Help American Mothers Now, Not Later
American families have long made the commonsense argument that we must know the price of health care before we receive it. Nowhere is the lack of price transparency more evident than in childbirth, and the months leading up to it, where millions of women and families make life-altering medical decisions without any clear understanding of what those… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Johnson Reveals State of the Union Special Guest
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will bring pro-life advocate Pastor Damon Magee, of Shreveport, Louisiana’s Kings Temple UPC, as a special guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “I am honored to welcome Damon Magee to the U.S. Capitol as my guest for the president’s… -
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The Media Lie About Trans Shooters
We just saw another tragic shooting in Rhode Island, this time at a high school hockey game. What people want to know in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies is who did it, where, and why—and how many people were injured or died. We instinctively want to know how close it was to us, if… -
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As Lawsuits Multiply, Transgender Reversal Movement Gains Momentum
Lawsuits filed by young people who were permanently disfigured by procedures attempting to reassign gender are multiplying, and more and more professional medical associations are backing away from endorsing the procedures for minors. Experts like Walt Heyer, who formerly spent eight years living a transgender lifestyle, say it’s just the beginning of a burgeoning movement…. -
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‘Tonight Was All for the Country’: USA Defeats Rival Canada for Olympic Hockey Gold
MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) — The United States ended a nearly half-century wait for Olympic men’s ice hockey gold with a 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in a thrilling final on Sunday, with Jack Hughes delivering their third title and first since 1980 with the winning shot. Hughes left it all—including at least one of… -
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More States Moving to Close Election Funding Loophole Few Voters Knew Existed
As many as two dozen states could enact legislation this year to ban foreign funding of ballot measures, a trend that gained bipartisan support last year. This follows nine states that have already enacted bans in the last 18 months. While it’s already illegal for foreign nationals or foreign entities to contribute to candidates, ballot… -
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Small Government vs. Big Crisis: The Conservative Dilemma
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” said Founding Father James Madison, describing checks and balances in a nutshell. More than two centuries later, the scale is tipping. Executive power has grown dramatically and risks blurring the Founder’s vision of America. The conservative movement faces a paradox: holding to the values of limited government while responding quickly to crises, which… -
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New York’s Hochul Administration Coddles Medicaid Fraud While Attacking Rural Hospitals
As a native New Yorker, I’m appalled to see what has become of my home state government. New York under Gov. Kathy Hochul has become a textbook case of failed blue state governance: bloated bureaucracy, rampant waste, and performative concern for working people while the institutions they depend on collapse. The rhetoric is far from… -
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At Olympics, Alysa Liu’s American Dream Comes True Against Wishes of CCP
Alysa Liu is living the American dream, and not just because the figure skater won two gold medals for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Liu represented the red, white, and blue with pride in Milan, but her father grew up under the hammer and sickle of communist China. Her father, Arthur Liu, was born and raised in… -
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The Next Front in the Censorship War Against Christians
Whether through pressure exerted on social media platforms or through armed raids carried out against pro-life Americans, former President Joe Biden and his administration oversaw an alarming increase in the suppression and censorship of religious—chiefly Christian—expressions and actions in the public square. At the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) International Christian Media Convention on Thursday, Christian… -
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SCOTUS Removes IEEPA Tariffs From Toolbox, Now Is Time for the BAT
In a 6 to 3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s attempt to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, lacked constitutional footing because the statute does not clearly authorize tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. However, that does not mean that the presidency has been… -
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Glib Barista AOC’s Ignorance Front and Center at Munich Security Conference
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Why would Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez be invited to an international security conference? It boggles the… -
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Why Are US Citizens Proud of America? New Study Reveals 2 Key Reasons
A new Pew Research Center study set out to learn why citizens of 25 different countries, including the United States, are proud of their nation. The study surveyed more than 30,000 people from various countries and found that “freedoms and liberties” were the two most common factors for why Americans said they are proud of… -
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The New Democratic Socialist Party Is a ‘Graveyard of Bad Ideas’
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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re heading, this year, in November, to the midterms. There’s a lot of opposition to the…