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The House version of the reconciliation package in Congress, passed on May 22, marks a long-overdue step toward fiscal responsibility in higher education. The policies in HR 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, should encourage students and taxpayers. These include eliminating the inflationary Grad PLUS loan program, placing borrowing caps on…
Harvard University remains embroiled in controversy more than a year after violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations began on its campus in April 2024. Recently, the Trump administration asked Harvard to disclose information about foreign students seeking to enroll, after the administration alleged that the university was guilty of civil rights abuses and antisemitism from its failure to…
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025 in response to a formal request submitted to Congress by President Donald Trump. From 1974 to 2000, it was commonplace for the president to request rescissions of funding under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. In…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women and healthy children. Kennedy also said that COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for those under 65 will undergo new clinical trials—an attempt…
President Donald Trump‘s rescission legislation has finally arrived in Congress, where it will have 45 days to be approved by both chambers on a simple majority vote. Success would be a significant victory in Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Left’s political infrastructure. It sounds simple, right? It is—very. Except Washington is full of Republicans afraid of their…
Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby Keith variety. The mayhem began in and around Los Angeles over the weekend after increasingly fiery and certainly not peaceful protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids morphed into large-scale violence. It…
When anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators took to the streets in the Los Angeles area over the weekend attacking officers, setting cars on fire, and looting, they drew attention to the left-leaning activist groups that may have helped instigate the riots. Three major organizations have come under increased scrutiny: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant…
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. This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its efforts…
According to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Republican plans to tighten Medicaid a little bit are not just unwise. They will trigger mass murder. Due to its comparative fiscal sanity, Schumer rechristened the Trump/GOP “One Big, Beautiful Bill” as the “We Are All Going to Die Act.” Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Schumer…
On May 9, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memorandum to the entire Department of Defense prohibiting the military service academies from using race in admissions, which they had been doing for decades. Effective immediately, offers of admissions to the highly selective military service academies must be based “exclusively on merit.” Hegseth justified…
As Senate Republican leadership rushes to pass the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, the math to get to a GOP consensus in both houses of Congress has suddenly gotten much harder. The “big, beautiful bill,” a 10-year budget package, is the main legislative vehicle for delivering on President Donald Trump's campaign promises and can be…
In April, New Zealand announced it aimed to nearly double defense spending to reach 2% of its gross domestic product in the next eight years—a step that marks a major shift in New Zealand’s national security strategy. While a member of the Anglosphere “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, New Zealand has not sufficiently funded its defense…
NATO plays a crucial role in our nation’s defense—and there’s a strong case to be made for increased defense spending by all NATO allies. Those are the points Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, made in his recent testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee. Gardiner is right:…
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.” Equality is a good thing. I support human rights. But the Human Rights Campaign? That’s something else. “They…
Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colorado, who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman’s victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his family had come to the United States on…
It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral…
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump correctly assailed elite universities like Harvard as controlled by “Marxist maniacs and lunatics.” He received a popular mandate to take them down. They deserve it. The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds. It is teaching…
Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP…
In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and religion are different enterprises, and it is understandable that many people would like to keep them as separate as possible. But they are constantly coupling and getting quite mixed up…
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’’ election last month. And maybe in Poland and South…