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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…
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…
On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as well as the clerk of the Maryland district court, for engaging in what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls an “egregious example of unlawful judicial overreach into the Executive Branch’s ability to…
You didn’t have to be a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles to appreciate (even reluctantly) running back Saquon Barkley’s season. The Super Bowl-winning star rocketed through defenses, racking up more than 2,000 yards and 15 touchdowns in a football season that can only be called unbelievable. Now, almost five months removed from the championship, the…
New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime. Of all the terrible policies 33-year-old New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has embraced over the last five years, none threaten New York City more than his ideas about the police and law and order. To a certain extent,…
As President Donald Trump aims to make America affordable again and cut costs for American families, special interests are concurrently working against the MAGA agenda by trying to add provisions into Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” One of these is the expansion of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), a giveaway to corporate developers to…
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 our two North American partners, Canada and Mexico. We’ve been in…
The Supreme Court case Trump v. CASA cut right to the heart of the judicial insurrection, the trend of district court judges siding with leftist activists to block President Donald Trump’s policies through nationwide preliminary injunctions. The court’s decision rightly struck down the judicial insurrection’s No. 1 strategy, but that doesn’t mean rogue judges won’t…
The Supreme Court punctuated its 2024 term with a decision that allowed the Federal Communications Commission to continue charging Americans billions of dollars annually for its Universal Service program. Universal Service, a subsidy program meant to bring communications technologies to rural and low-income areas, survived a consumer group’s challenge that argued that the FCC’s seemingly…
President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for more than 35 years, the commander in chief took decisive action on June 21 to keep his promise that he would never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Operation Midnight Hammer was a success—America’s fine men and…
Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem that organize street mayhem are veering sharply from anti-deportation actions to pro-Iran ones. They may have to swap in flags of the Islamic Republic for the Mexican ones they’ve been waving in Los Angeles, or the Hamas ones they waved earlier, but so be…
Tucked inside the Senate’s 940-page reconciliation package is a controversial provision that would discourage states from enforcing almost any law related to artificial intelligence or algorithms for 10 years. The moratorium on state AI laws has undergone multiple revisions to survive the Senate’s arcane rules governing reconciliation legislation. Under the final language, states would be…
Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos. He worked with some big names, like Snoop Dogg and Natalie Portman. In my new video, I remind him that his Snoop Dogg video includes the lyrics: “Set the mood, spoon and groom. … I can…
When the Southern Poverty Law Center put Focus on the Family on its “hate map,” listing the conservative Christian nonprofit alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, it made life a bit tougher, but the Christian group had already faced so many “cancel culture” attacks, it was ready for the blowback. “We are Christians, we’re…
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry. The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments that had stood on the grounds of the Texas state Capitol since 1961 violated the First Amendment. That…
My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the “12-Day War.” Although the Mossad’s intelligence and the Israel Defense Forces’ rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing…
As America braces for another storm season, only the media storms are more predictable than upcoming hurricanes and tornadoes. Even before the dust settles after natural disasters, headlines often warn that gusts of wind and funnel clouds are proof the Earth is boiling. Politicians rush to blame carbon emissions while their supporters flood social media…
Update: The Justice Department announced Saturday it would allow the Hewlett Packard Enterprise merger with Juniper Networks to go forward after a settlement was reached. The Trump administration has made revitalizing American industry and taking on the Chinese Communist Party top priorities. But those efforts are being jeopardized by a misguided antitrust lawsuit that threatens…
On Tuesday, in what it labeled an “exclusive,” CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report’s lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in attempting to discredit reports of…
President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War. With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run. But the attack, and subsequent ceasefire between Israel and Iran, also represents a reset of…