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Tony Kinnett interviews expert public finance economist EJ Antoni to understand the different uses and impacts from tariff policy as the Trump administration targets trade deficits with this economic tool. Antoni is a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Watch the segment from The…
Whenever the subject of trade comes up, many right-leaning free traders and left-leaning neoliberals alike trot out the same talking point: “The economists all agree tariffs are terrible!” And perhaps they do—or at least most of them do. Barriers to free and unfettered trade may well appear inefficient as a matter of an economic model’s…
President Donald Trump’s win in November was so sweeping of a mandate that Republicans won control of both the House and Senate. Control of Congress is critical to moving Trump’s vast America First agenda forward—and because of the slim majority held by Republicans in the House of Representatives, one would hope they’re working together in…
Our media elites love to tout themselves as “independent” and “fact-based.” But on almost any story on President Donald Trump, they can’t help but put those words in the shredder. The Kennedy Center illustrates one major difference between the two Trump terms. In the first term, the president deferred to the leftists who gave all…
It’s finally spring. Better mow your lawn. If you don’t, your town government may fine you thousands of dollars a day. Worse, if you can’t pay the fine, they may confiscate your home. Six years ago, in Dunedin, Florida, Jim Ficken let his grass grow. His mom had died, and he’d left town to take care…
At a time when traditional values are under assault, master sculptor Sabin Howard is bringing classical beauty back to American culture—one bronze figure at a time. Howard, creator of “A Soldier’s Journey,” the World War I Memorial in the nation’s capital, spoke with The Daily Signal to share his remarkable journey from college dropout to…
A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress—also known as the Nation’s Report Card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. American Enterprise Institute characterizes the most…
Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System—a blueprint for national strength and self-sufficiency. Developed in the early 19th century, Clay’s vision centered on protective tariffs, a strong national banking system, infrastructure development, and the responsible use of natural resources. These pillars propelled the United States into economic dominance. However,…
Some of the language on the signs is offensive and not appropriate for children. Face masks. Rainbow flags. Handmaid's Tale costumes. Hysterical references to Nazis. Yup—the "Hands Off" protest in Washington, D.C., Saturday had all the regular tropes of another left-wing protest. The protest in the nation's capital was one of a reported 1,200 across…
For Silvester Krcmery, each morning began with what he called an “inventory check.” Krcmery, a doctor who described his prison cell as so small he could not sit, recalls waking up in the bitterly cold atmosphere. “Do I still have my nose? Because it was as cold as a frozen stone. So I check: all…
President Donald Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back cultural ground that the Left has spent decades capturing. This new action should be far-reaching and profound and sweep away such dangerous ideas as the Latino Museum. The executive order the president issued late last week, on…
The U.S. Department of Education is calling on colleges to account for racist and antisemitic incidents on campus—and its move to withhold taxpayer dollars from violators has gotten university officials’ attention. The University of Michigan just disbanded its multiyear, multimillion-dollar boondoggle in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Columbia University agreed to align the school with…
If there were any lingering doubts about the unabashedly pro-transgender bias of the liberal media, they were demolished Thursday by the marked contrast between a feature story and a news article, both in The Washington Post, on two separate cases of trans athletes competing in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. At 6 a.m. Thursday morning,…
Civil disobedience practiced by the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. is one thing. Crimes against people or property for political ends are quite another. The latter risks return to the law of the jungle, a cure worse than the disease. That provides the framework to assess the proliferation of criminal…
A Democrat member of the Colorado House of Representatives doubled down on previous remarks defending her excluding parental rights groups from discussions about a bill that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming.” She did so by comparing parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan in a hearing on…
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. April 3, President Donald Trump announced it as “Liberation Day.” And by that he meant we…
Don Devine is proud that The Washington Post once attacked him as President Ronald Reagan’s “terrible swift sword of the civil service,” but even he is blown away by the muscular reforms of the Trump administration. That doesn’t stop him from giving advice on how to slay the deep state leviathan, however. Devine, who served…
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement in general and on specific prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago,…
While Virginia’s current governor is facing more partisan pushback from the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly over his nominees to serve on state boards and commissions in the waning months of his administration (more regarding that issue coming soon to this space), two former Democrat governors have reached across the aisle to make suggestions…
Aside from the rhetoric, there is a growing consensus among Western diplomats, military analysts, military officers, heads of state, and even much of the media about how to end the endless Ukrainian war. A proposed peace will see a Demilitarized Zone established somewhere along an adjusted 1,200-mile Ukraine-Russia border. Tough negotiations will adjudicate how far…