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opinion
Securing America’s AI Edge: Trump’s Plan To Outpace China
The race to develop artificial intelligence capabilities will play a decisive role in the “New Cold War” with China. America currently enjoys a multiyear lead in cutting-edge AI technologies. This lead is protected by export controls that prevent China from obtaining America’s best technology and slow its progress in developing AI with dual-use civilian and military capabilities…. -
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Mike Lee’s Land Plan Is a Good Plan
Should parts of Yellowstone National Park—or any national park or monument—be sold so private homes can be built there? Absolutely not. But what about a very small fraction of the approximately 437 million acres of land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service that is not part of any national park… -
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‘I’m More Libertarian Than You!’ Rand Paul Opens Up About His Conversations With Trump, Iran War
At any moment, President Donald Trump could decide to directly involve the United States in yet another war in the Middle East—this time against Iran. The stakes could not be higher and this week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss. “I think President Trump’s instincts are to try to keep us… -
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More Republicans Than Democrats Support Israel in Conflict With Iran, Poll Finds
A majority of registered Republican voters and those who lean Republican—58%—said the United States should be supporting Israel in its current conflict with Iran, according to a new Napolitan News National Survey. Twenty-four percent of Republicans and Republican leaners said the U.S. should not support Israel or Iran in the conflict. Registered Democrat voters and… -
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Israel Dismantles Iran’s Defenses, but Will It Be Enough?
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 are at a historic time in the Middle East. Never in our lifetimes have we… -
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Misunderstanding Trump
Many are now demanding that President Donald Trump act abroad in the way they think he had promised and campaigned—which can be mostly defined as how closely he should parallel their own version of MAGA. But Trump’s past shows that he never claimed that he was either an ideological isolationist or an interventionist. He was… -
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AIPAC Calls on Trump, Congress for US Aid to Israel in Its Clash With Iran
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is calling on Congress and the Trump administration to provide aid to Israel in its military conflict with Iran. “Israel is taking decisive action tonight against the Iranian nuclear program, which has been a growing threat not only to Israel, but to America and our other regional allies,” AIPAC… -
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China’s Vape Offensive and the Mexican Cartel Pipeline: A Growing Threat to US Security
In Mexico, the cartels have found their perfect staging ground to capitalize on a low-risk, high-profit cash crop. Lax enforcement against illicit tobacco has created vast gray zones where cartels operate openly, stockpiling illicit goods, laundering profits, and planning cross-border smuggling with little fear of government intrusion. For the past two decades, I have investigated… -
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Hegseth Outlines Pentagon’s Budget, Priorities at Senate Panel Hearing
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday testified on the Pentagon’s proposed defense budget for fiscal year 2026, articulating the Trump administration’s vision for a strong United States. Addressing the elephant in the room, Hegseth said the decision about whether or not to strike Iran is at the presidential level, and that he would go… -
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5 Key Moments From Sen. Padilla’s Speech About His Confrontation With Kristi Noem
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., delivered remarks Tuesday on the Senate floor, defending his confrontation last week with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while accusing President Donald Trump of using the Los Angeles riots as a pretext to deploy the National Guard and violate First Amendment rights. On June 12, during a press briefing held by… -
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Heritage Expert: Israeli Strikes Put Iran ‘At the Cusp’ of Losing Nuclear Capability
As tensions in the Middle East escalate following Israeli airstrikes on Iran, a leading national security expert says Israel has achieved a decisive advantage that could end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Robert Greenway, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security, argues that Israel’s recent operations have crippled Iran’s military leadership, destroyed air… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Coalition Urges Confirmation of Chair of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative organizations is urging the Senate to confirm the chair of an independent agency used by the Biden administration to push gender transitions and abortion. Throughout the second Trump administration, Andrea Lucas has served as the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lucas has served on… -
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Sen. Ron Johnson Proposes Alternative to ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., perhaps the Senate’s fiercest fiscal hawk, has released a lengthy report on the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, claiming the bill would balloon deficits. The big, beautiful bill is a 10-year fiscal plan that would fulfill many of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, such as extending his 2017 tax cuts and… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Age of American Empire Over or Just Beginning?
President Donald Trump returned to Washington in January with a mandate from the American people to end mass migration. That same month, however, the foreign-born population living within America’s borders hit a record high, in an echo of the Roman Empire. Is it too late to save America from mass migration? Even if America is… -
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Historian Victor Davis Hanson Lays Out Ancient Lessons on Borders: ‘Walls Do Really Work’
Military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson, speaking Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, drew striking parallels between the empires of the past and the modern United States. Hanson, a Daily Signal contributor, contended that, contrary to the assertions of the Left, “walls do work,” and that the United States is in need of cultural cohesion… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused the Counterrevolution?
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars… -
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Renowned Historian Victor Davis Hanson Joins The Daily Signal
If your New Year’s resolution was to discover more astute analysis of politics and current events, The Daily Signal has a treat for you. Victor Davis Hanson, the renowned American historian and political commentator, is joining The Daily Signal as a senior contributor. For years, our audience has loved his weekly syndicated column—and for good… -
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Which Biden Could Be Pardoned Next? Here’s What Victor Davis Hanson Thinks
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Victor Davis Hanson, historian, commentator, and Hoover Institution senior fellow, said Thursday on his podcast that he believes all of President Joe Biden’s family members will be next in line to receive pardons. Since the president’s announcement Dec. 1 that he would pardon his son Hunter Biden of criminal charges, he has faced pushback… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why Trump ‘Terrifies’ the ‘Out-Of-Touch Wealthy Elite’ of Both Parties
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Victor Davis Hanson said Monday on Fox News that former President Donald Trump “terrifies” the “out-of-touch wealthy elite” because they lack compassion and understanding of the average American’s concerns. Hanson argued that Trump has redefined the Republican Party by recasting it as a coalition of upper-middle- and lower-middle-class citizens, leaving both traditional Republicans and… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Deadly ‘Get Trump’ Climate Continues
Just two months after the failed Trump assassination attempt by one Thomas Matthew Crooks, we witnessed Sunday yet another foiled one, by Ryan Wesley Routh—a would-be assassin and anti-Trump/radical pro-Ukraine War social media addict. Somehow he, too, once again got within relatively easy shooting range of former President Donald Trump. Is there a continued pattern…
