Political Commentary & Opinion

Leftists look down on the supposedly unwashed masses and see climate Armageddon, but conservatives rightly fear that we're not having enough babies to take care of our growing elderly population. Hungary is facing the real threat head on with a new family policy aimed at preventing demographic winter. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Friday that…

“We are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry,” President Donald Trump declared in his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4. To accomplish that, the president has announced the establishment of an Office of Shipbuilding. That announcement reflects the recognition of an issue that has been ignored for too long:…

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION— After years of breathtaking incompetence and failure under Joe Biden, Donald Trump decided once again to put his very comfortable private life on hold and embark on an unprecedented rescue mission to save America. And as President Trump campaigned for re-election, he was hounded by four bogus indictments from weaponized prosecutors…

For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively by the carbon dioxide emissions of human activity will ravage the food supply and plunge humanity into famine and chaos. For many reasons, none of this ever made sense. Now,…

I love my children and I love my job, but I dread driving to work and school every morning and every afternoon. Why? Because the roads in Washington, D.C., are hell, and they don’t have to be this way. D.C. driving is already bad—the district is built on two intersecting grids, so roads don’t just…

The stock market of late has been on a veritable roller coaster, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to ruffle feathers, Iran marches ever harrowingly closer to a nuclear weapon, and Russia and Ukraine get tantalizingly close to a ceasefire. But the national political conversation this week has curiously tended to focus not on…

Despite a smattering of preliminary injunctions and administrative stay orders from rogue federal judges, President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is well on its way to accomplishing its worthy goals. And despite what some out-of-control judges are saying, it is acting well within the boundaries of the law.  Already, DOGE has exposed wasteful, potentially…

In less than two months, President Donald Trump has signed more than 80 executive orders, reshaping federal government policy and administration of the executive branch on a range of issues including immigration, national security and defense, gender, education, and government efficiency. Predictably, the Left is trying to use the courts to fight this political battle,…

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. There’s been a lot of frenzy in the news about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. He’s…

On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, many decked out in Islamist garb, descended onto Times Square chanting, “Globalize the intifada.” One of the organizers of the protest was Columbia University Apartheid Divest,…

Adapted from a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Texas Summit on March 7, 2025.  We are here at an extraordinary moment of renewal right now.  President Donald Trump has reversed four years of decline, four years where Joe Biden tried to destroy this country. But thanks to our president’s leadership right now, and alongside House…

President Donald Trump pulled a staggering $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, one of many hotbeds of antisemitism and pro-terror protests that have sprung up in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel by Hamas. The campus was, for weeks, occupied by rioters who took control of Columbia’s core areas and…

WASHINGTON—“I realized I am a guinea pig,” Forrest Smith said of his transition from male to female at age 19. After five years, Smith detransitioned. He spoke about his personal journey at a briefing on Capitol Hill on March 12, Detrans Awareness Day, first celebrated in 2021 to promote awareness of individuals who realized they…

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. Have you noticed the dilemma that higher education is in? Recently, the Trump administration cut off…