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opinion
Consider the Dissenter: Justice Jackson’s Troubled Close to the 2024 Term
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice seeking to establish her legacy. By some lights, her mere presence as the first black women on the Supreme Court is already a legacy-cementing fact. To her credit, she understands that status alone is not enough, and thus she has been enormously active as a questioner and opinion writer… -
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Zero Illegal Aliens Were Let Into US in June
The Trump administration’s border czar Tom Homan announced on X Tuesday evening that not a single person detained at the border in June was released into the country. Last month’s border numbers are in, and they are a massive win for President Donald Trump and the rule of law. That goes alongside a dramatic decline in total border encounters… -
opinion
John Reid Talks About Uniting the Virginia Republican Ticket for November
Politics—the concept, not the American spectator sport—comes from ancient Greek word politiká, or “affairs of the cities,” and is defined as “a set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups.” One group that will need to work together over the next several months is the Republican ticket for Virginia’s next governor, lieutenant… -
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Turning Up the Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan
“Taiwan is, of course, a country,” proclaimed the island’s President Lai Ching-te on June 22. In his first of a series of 10 lectures, Lai reaffirmed that Taiwan’s sovereignty derives from its 23 million people, earning him a swift rebuke from Beijing. True to form, Beijing resorted to calling Lai’s speech “a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration… -
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DOJ Sues More States Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens
Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state. The law it’s… -
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Media Gets It Wrong on UVA President’s Resignation
What last week’s resignation of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan wasn’t was an assault on academia and the independence of America’s universities as the media and Democrat elected officials are claiming. What it is is a serious opportunity to talk about federalism and real academic independence. First, the details. The U.S. Department of Justice… -
opinion
Democrats Need a Dose of Populism, but Not Mamdani’s Kind
Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the defeats right-wing populism inflicted on them with President Donald Trump. Now they’re knocked on their backsides by a new generation of left-wing populism in their own party. Making Mamdani mayor of New York… -
news
Controversy Over UVA President’s Resignation Puts DEI in Education in the Spotlight
Fallout continues in wake of the news that University of Virginia President James Ryan will be stepping down from his role as President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice investigates the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Trump issued an executive order earlier this year telling federally funded entities to shut down DEI programs or they… -
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UPenn Settlement With Trump Admin Over Trans Athletes Seen as Big Win for Women’s Sports
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had reached an unprecedented settlement with the University of Pennsylvania over transgender-identifying males competing against females in women’s sports. The federal Department of Education was able to get the university to agree to restore female athletes to all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or other… -
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Grassley Reveals the FBI Suppressed Evidence of China Meddling in 2020 Election
The FBI suppressed intelligence about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election, according to emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The FBI declassified and provided requested records to Grassley after the senator received whistleblower information about the matter. Emails show that on Sept. 25, 2020, the FBI’s field office in Albany, New… -
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Rocky Road Ahead for ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ After Senate Triumph
After the Senate’s narrow 51-50 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote, Republican senators celebrated finally getting the massive 10-year fiscal framework across the finish line there. The bill passed the Senate despite the “no” votes from Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins… -
opinion
Democrats’ Pride in America Hinges on Who’s in Charge
For this year’s Independence Day it seems fewer Democrats will be celebrating. A recently released Gallup poll revealed a disturbing trend. The percentage of Americans who say they are proud of their country has dropped to a historic low. “A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are ‘extremely’ (41%) or ‘very’ (17%) proud to be an American, down… -
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Biden Chief of Staff Set to Testify in House Probe of Cognitive Decline, Autopen Use
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain has agreed to take questions from congressional investigators probing former President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, according to an aide with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee is also investigating the potential unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions. Klain agreed to… -
opinion
Rubio Rings the Death Knell of USAID
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to the State Department Substack on Tuesday to ring the death knell of the U.S. Agency for International Development. “This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end,” Rubio proclaimed. “Under the Trump administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our… -
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Students for Fair Admissions and Naval Academy File Motion to Vacate Opinion Allowing Academy to Use Race in Admissions
Imagine judging a trial, ruling for one party, and writing a 179-page opinion, only to find the same parties asking you to vacate your opinion and dismiss the case six months later! That’s exactly what happened to the federal district court judge who presided over the trial in the Students for Fair Admissions v. The United… -
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Trump Tours Florida’s New Illegal-Alien ‘Alcatraz,’ Where Guards Take ‘Form of Alligators’
President Donald Trump toured a new detention center for illegal aliens referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday. “I mean, you don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure,” Trump said of the location of the detention facility after stepping off Air Force One in Florida. “They have a… -
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Why ‘7 to 10’ House Republicans May Vote ‘No’ on Senate Version of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
With the Senate passing its own version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” around noon on Tuesday, the significantly altered budget reconciliation goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson will attempt to swiftly send the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk before Republicans’ self-imposed deadline of July 4. But before the Big, Beautiful Bill… -
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Cities Have Turned Their Roads Into an LGBTQ Statement. The Trump Admin Is Doing Something About It.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter Tuesday to the 50 state governors, urging them to remove distractions from roads, including divisive and distracting political messaging like rainbow crosswalks. “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” Duffy said in a statement first provided to The Daily Signal. “Today I… -
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Senate Passes Big, Beautiful Bill in Tie-Breaking Vote
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a 10-year fiscal package that would serve as the vehicle for fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts and border security. Despite intra-party debates on overall deficit levels, health care reform, and how to undo former President Joe Biden’s environmental… -
opinion
President Trump: ‘A Big One for Western Civilization’
President Donald Trump flew out to the Netherlands on June 24 to participate in the NATO summit in The Hague, where he was widely credited with having been the driving force behind a new NATO commitment to spend 5% (up from the current 2% minimum) of gross domestic product on defense spending. As NATO Secretary…
