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The decisions of the Supreme Court reverberate throughout the nation, defining the limits of government power and often directing our culture. The 2024-2025 term of the Supreme Court is now coming to a close, bringing with it a wide range of cases. I spoke with Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s…
In South America, the nation of Guyana is under threat. Just next door, its socialist, autocratic neighbor Venezuela is actively attempting to lay the foundation for a guerrilla war over the region of Essequibo. Essequibo makes up about 160,000 square kilometers of Guyanese territory, about two-thirds of the country’s total landmass, and is home to…
On June 23, 2016, citizens of the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union. Nine years and two days later, New York Democrats voted to emulate the Soviet Union. Watching the Brexit argument unfold from across the pond nine years ago, I was stunned that almost every argument I saw from the Remain movement…
On Saturday, the U.S. Senate parliamentarian cleared a proposed measure discouraging states from placing safeguards on artificial intelligence and Big Tech for the next decade. It could be included in the reconciliation package that the Senate is expected to consider as early as this week. To overcome the Senate’s arcane rules, the Commerce Committee rewrote…
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 now in the aftermath of the Saturday night, June 21st American strike to take out…
President Donald Trump was on solid legal ground in the military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Not only did he not need congressional approval to carry out the mission, but his actions were consistent with presidential practice going back decades. Presidents of both parties have authorized the use of the armed forces for military actions,…
Preliminary after-action reports following U.S. military operations are standard, but “almost always wrong,” according to President Donald Trump’s former deputy national security adviser. The effectiveness of U.S. strikes Saturday on Iran’s three primary nuclear facilities was called into question in reporting from CNN and The New York Times that was based on a leaked initial…
By striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and immediately getting a ceasefire in the Iran-Israel conflict, President Donald Trump was sending a message not just to the mullahs of Iran, but to China and our other potential rivals. The message Trump sent is this: Believe the president’s red lines. You don’t want to tangle with the United…
WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the Executive Mansion and its chief resident, features a full-screen photo that encapsulates our age. President Donald Trump leads a meeting in the Cabinet Room. He is flanked by his secretaries of state, defense, energy, commerce, health, and education. Trump is clearheaded, focused, and in charge. He speaks. They listen. …
President Donald Trump was swept into office last November with a promise to lower prices for Americans who had suffered under 40-year-high inflation under President Joe Biden. Why, then, are red states defying the president’s efforts to lower prices by passing laws that only feed growing health care costs? Trump is delivering on his campaign…
Today, America’s visa system is filled with loopholes and vulnerabilities. But fortunately, there are several simple ways to address those—a fact I emphasized in my Wednesday testimony in the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on “Restoring Integrity and Security to the Visa Process.” But what is a visa? Let’s imagine America is a castle surrounded by…
No other American president has faced as much hostile, ideologically driven judicial warfare as has President Donald Trump. But there was a president who also faced a slew of new, hostile judges appointed by his predecessor—and his example provides an interesting historical lesson. That prior president was Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United…
It’s always shocking to see some middle-aged, terribly overweight, poorly shaven magazine editor furiously posting on X, baying for blood in a country thousands of miles away. Shocking, yet expected, especially over the past two weeks, as Israel and Iran have exchanged fire and President Donald Trump has weighed America’s role in the conflict. Over…
Racism is despicable and must be fought. Not a controversial statement, right? But what if racism rebranded itself as … “anti-racism”? The consequences of such “anti-racism” are what the Asian American community is currently facing, and no place has been more of a flashpoint for that than Northern Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is apparently the leader of a menacing conspiracy. The New York Times put this on its June 24 front page: “Under [President Donald] Trump, Ex-MTV Star Pitches Big Families.” But he used to be a bad boy on MTV, so the headline underneath was “From a Racy Past to a Key…
The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons—it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs’ missiles. They’ve been a threat to Salman Rushdie’s life in the United States and Europe for…
Virginians don’t elect their statewide executive officers as a party “ticket” like the U.S. president and vice president do, so the races can be “every candidate for him/herself.” Sometimes, the candidates exemplify that and run on their own rather than as a team. And oftentimes, that can be to their collective detriment. One example of…
A far-left socialist who has supported defunding the police and replacing them with social workers, abolishing prisons, abolishing private health insurance, banning guns, decriminalizing pretty much every drug, and creating government-run grocery stores won the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City on Tuesday. The race is about more than New York. It’s a harbinger of…
Ron Klain is the eye of the storm. Again. Klain, who served as chief of staff to former President Joe Biden, moved to the private sector and now serves as chief legal officer at Airbnb, the real estate rental tech giant. Unfortunately, Klain’s gone from managing a White House accused of concealing the severity of…
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. After the June 21st, Saturday night bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran, the Left has…