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opinion
Found Guilty of Wasting Our Time
I shouldn’t get so angry. It isn’t healthy. Last week, New York state summoned me to jury duty. I went, of course. It’s the law, and my duty. A jury may protect the innocent from government abuse. Ordinary citizens, not officials, decide if you are guilty. But doing our patriotic duty shouldn’t mean surrendering hours… -
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Illinois Parents Consider Lawsuit After School District Defends Housing Boys With Girls on Overnight Trips
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Illinois parents are considering a lawsuit after their kids’ school district stood by its policy of placing males with female high school students on overnight trips while withholding information from parents. “In light of the district failing to recognize their legal obligations to D128 families and educators, Liberty Justice Center is… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran War Is Not an ‘Endless War’
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. Victor Davis Hanson: I get really tired of the Left and some of the Right because they… -
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Don’t Hire the Arsonists to Fight the Affordability Fire
Voters are angry about the cost of living, and they have every right to be. With Republicans in full control of Washington, they expect a fast reversal of the Biden years. But voters’ anger should not be mistaken for amnesia. Americans clearly remember who started the affordability fire burning through families’ wallets. My new League… -
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What Justice Elena Kagan Gets Wrong About Democracy
Much of the Left seems intent on defining “democracy” as bureaucratic administration, but many of the changes to the bureaucracy they condemn actually empower the people. Take Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, for instance. She suggested that the majority decisions of her conservative colleagues are undermining American democracy, citing cases involving gerrymandering, money in politics,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Western Civilization Is Fighting Back
Summary 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 watching Western civilization and Western countries worldwide under assault, sometimes militarily, sometimes economically,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Is Reversing Biden Policies. Why Is His Justice Department Still Defending Them?
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Federal agencies are continuing to defend some legal positions of the Biden administration, according to an analysis by two conservative groups. Leaders of the groups Power the Future and Defend Forgotten America sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche calling for a comprehensive review of lawsuits… -
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Customers Pay for Virginia’s Policies on Power Production
Virginia’s federal elections will be finished in less than two weeks, but some state-based issues are likely to keep simmering long after Election Day. Examples include the state’s policies governing data centers and how the electricity to power those centers—and the homes of millions of citizens—is generated. A court in Goochland County hosted a pretrial… -
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Supreme Court Rules on Trump Admin Policy Blocking Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Prisoners
The Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court order preventing the Bureau of Prisons from denying previously prescribed transgender procedures to prison inmates. The court denied the stay in an unsigned order, noting that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted the stay. The Bureau of Prisons… -
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Miller-Meeks Debuts Ad on Project She Says Will Transform Southeast Iowa
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Mariannette Miller-Meeks is launching a new ad Friday night highlighting the new steel plant President Donald Trump and Republicans are bringing to Iowa. As the largest steel plant in America, it is set to bring 1,700 new permanent jobs, thousands more construction jobs, and tens of billions of dollars to the… -
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Art Installation Connects a Henrico County High School to Germany
Relations between the United States and Germany may sometimes seem strained at the federal level. However, a group of 28 exchange students from western Germany joined scores of their American counterparts in Henrico County this week to build a bridge, of sorts, between their respective high schools. The students unveiled an art project on the… -
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Documentary Claims Muslims Want America to Be Islamic State
Muslims in America want to transform the country into an Islamic state governed by Sharia law, according to Daily Signal contributor Steve Cortes’ latest documentary, “Muslims and Michigan: Opposites Don’t Attract.” In his 20-minute YouTube film, Cortes takes to the mosque-lined streets of Dearborn, Michigan to warn audiences about how Muslim politicians use their power… -
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Could Affordability Decide California’s Governor Race?
In California’s gubernatorial race, Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton are hoping to win over voters with their drastically different plans to address affordability in the state with the highest cost of living in the nation. California’s high cost of living is top of mind for voters heading into the 2026 elections. A September poll… -
opinion
What Do College Students Really Think About Jane Doe and the Cornell 7? GW Students React
What happened in 2024 at Cornell University between an unnamed Jane Doe and seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers, now dubbed the Cornell 7, is morally wrong and disgusting every way you look at it. But is choosing to drink, consenting to sex, and regretting it afterwards enough to win in a court of law? The… -
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The Hidden Cost of Socialism? The Innovation It Never Creates
Imagine a day without capitalism. You wake up to a decently sized apartment, just suited to fit your needs. Housing is a human right, after all, but penthouses aren’t. But how can you complain? You barely have bills. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses. They’re common goods. Those are some of the… -
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The Slippery Slope to Euthanasia
THE WASHINGTON STAND—American culture works too hard to hide the effects of death. Trained professionals conceal dead bodies in large bags. Morgues chill corpses to prevent decay. Popular media almost always celebrates youth and health to the exclusion of death (unless it is postulating some version of animated “undeath,” such as ghosts, mummies, vampires, or… -
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The Anti-Trump Media and ‘Economic Pessimism’
In a college psychology course, my class studied an experiment. This is an oversimplification, but experiment went as follows. A group of college students were shown a paper on which a 6-inch line was drawn. The paper was passed to the students sitting around table. They were asked to estimate the length of the line…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Montana AG Asks Supreme Court to Revive Case Against DEI Training That Allegedly Declared ‘All Caucasians’ Racist
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading 20 states in urging the Supreme Court to take up the case of Joshua Young, a former Colorado prison guard who sued the Department of Corrections over a diversity, equity, and inclusion training. “DEI training actively undermines workplace harmony, and it causes hostility, distrust,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Cornell 7 Case is What You Get When You Play With Feminism
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Let’s look at the Cornell 7 first. I know that this is a continuing saga, but recently we had… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Coalition Urges Dr. Oz to End Medicare’s ‘Paying Twice’ Problem
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative and free-market groups is supporting a Trump administration proposal to prevent Medicare from paying twice for overlapping physician work performed during the same patient visit, which the coalition says also costs seniors. Sixteen conservative groups, led by the 60 Plus Association, sent a letter to Centers for…
