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opinion
How Child Trafficking and China Are Fueled by Clean Energy
America is at an energy crossroads, and with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—landmark legislation aimed at unleashing domestic energy production, securing critical mineral supply chains, and reducing costs for American families—we have a pivotal opportunity to reshape not only our economy, but also the global moral landscape. Currently, the clean energy revolution is being… -
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Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ Poses Threat to GOP
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. Elon Musk, as we all know now, has had a rupture. The friendship between himself and… -
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83 Percent of Jewish Students Face Campus Hate—How Much More Will Colleges Allow?
I walked into that house meeting with a knot of anxiety, a strange sense of paranoia. An hour later, I was running into the freezing Ohio night, barefoot and coatless, tears blurring my vision. My paranoia, it turns out, was simply an instinct for survival. During my last year at Kenyon College, my roommates, all… -
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Modest Cuts, Outsized Outrage: The Truth Behind the Big, Beautiful Bill’s Budget Reform
An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program, that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate it for making supposedly… -
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Musk Launches the ‘America Party.’ A Business Associate Is Not Pleased.
Tech titan Elon Musk announced on Saturday the launch of a new political party named the “America Party” in response to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House on Thursday with a vote of 218-214. The legislation includes provisions that align with President Donald Trump‘s… -
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What the 12-Day War Hath Wrought
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and the… -
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House Speaker Reveals One Big Beautiful Bill Act is First of Three Reconciliation Bills
While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed after a lengthy and tense period, there will be even more reconciliation bills to follow in the coming months, said House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday today. “We have been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall that would be attached to the next… -
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Are China-Linked Organizations Affecting US Environmental Policies?
China-linked entities have their fingerprints on climate lobbying and lawsuits in the U.S., causing alarm among some lawmakers and watchdog organizations. “I don’t know the intentions. But whatever the intentions, policy after policy demonstrably strengthens China and weakens the United States,” Scott Walter, president of the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, told The Daily Signal… -
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Rebel Ex-DNC Official Hogg’s PAC Endorses Gen Z Candidate in Arizona Race
Former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s political action committee, Leaders We Deserve, has endorsed a Gen Z challenger, Deja Foxx, in an Arizona special congressional primary next week. “Deja Foxx has been holding Republicans’ and career politicians’ feet to the fire since she was 15 years old. She’s an organizer who has carved… -
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Increased Use of Paper Ballots, Electronic Poll Books Could Boost Election Security
A significant shift toward paper ballots and paper records of electronic votes to more easily audit election results, as well as electronic methods to verify registered voters when they show up to vote, could be a boon in providing election security, said Donald Palmer, chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. These developments also align with… -
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What the First 6 Months of the Trump Admin Have Revealed About Our ‘Experts’
The first six months of the Donald Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the Ph.Ds. employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary,… -
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Dems Eye Senate Pickup Opportunity in Bruising Texas GOP Primary Battle
The 2026 Senate race in Texas will be another dramatic showdown, with Democrats again eyeing a major pickup opportunity amid Republican infighting. On Tuesday, Democrat former Rep. Colin Allred launched his 2026 Senate campaign, a comeback bid after losing to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by 8.5 points in 2024. The announcement followed a meeting between… -
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The Conservateur’s Jayme Franklin on Trump’s ‘Hot’ America
Jayme Franklin was a young college student at the University of California at Berkeley in 2016 and chose to support Donald Trump for president. Following Trump’s election, Franklin quickly became aware of a lack of representation among young conservative women. Women’s magazines, such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan, peddled leftist talking points and promoted narratives in opposition… -
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A Reminder of What the 4th of July Means
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. Today is the 4th of July, and I’d like to remind everybody what the 4th of… -
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The Fantasy World of Mamdani
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. I’d like to talk about the dream house of Zohran Mamdani. He was a successful Democratic… -
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Inside the Last-Minute Fight to Pass the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine is a bit tired after the multi-day battle to pass the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill through the House of Representatives, but he thinks it was worth the all-nighters. “Snoozing on my couch isn’t my idea of a good time. But you know what, whatever we’ve got to do to… -
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House Passes ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in Legislative Triumph for Republicans
The House of Representatives narrowly passed a massive 10-year budget framework, known as the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, on Thursday in a triumph for the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. “If you’re for a secure border, safer communities, and a strong military—this bill is for you,” Speaker of the House… -
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Heritage Action Labels Big, Beautiful Bill a Key Vote
Heritage Action, a Washington conservative advocacy group, is labeling the House’s passage of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill a “key vote.” For Heritage Action, a key vote is when the group urges a bill’s passage and use it as a way to score a lawmaker’s alignment with conservative policies. “In a historic move, the… -
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Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his second term actions as president. That was the take from The Daily Signal’s Executive Editor Rob Bluey on a CNN panel that drew chuckles from the reliably liberal commentators. I agree, and not just because Rob is my boss. By the public standards of the… -
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Won’t Stop Aid Distribution After Hamas Puts Bounties on Workers
Hamas has placed bounties on the heads of American and local Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers. But the Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, says, “If all of these threats are intended to shut us down, it’s just not going to work.” “Terrorists want to cause you to be afraid,” Moore said. “I’m a…
