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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 don’t want to go back and look at the 2020 elections, especially, but there’s some…
Activist judges have courted disaster with abusive nationwide injunctions to stop policies they don’t like. Unlike the executive and legislative branches, the courts have only their reputation to give them power. With the recent spate of overzealous universal injunctions, some prominent members of Congress are threatening to intervene. It was only a matter of time….
School choice will soon hit a tipping point. If Texas enacts a universal school choice bill, as seems very likely, then more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. Already this year, three states—Idaho, Tennessee, and Wyoming—have enacted new universal education choice policies or expanded existing ones to make…
President Donald Trump is ending outdated trade policies that harm hard-working Americans. Naturally, globalist elites are spitting mad that the United States is finally putting the interests of American workers, families, and communities over the pocketbooks of self-anointed “citizens of the world.” Here are four ways Trump’s trade policies are restoring respect for America: 1) Demanding…
The Trump administration received some good news when the Senate confirmed Dr. Marty Makary as head of the Food and Drug Administration. This is a critical nomination to get through because the FDA will play an integral role in executing the president’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Without a doubt, we need him at his…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Kristen Clarke, who headed up the Justice Department office that prosecuted pro-lifers for protesting abortion clinics, met with leaders at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compares mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the Ku Klux Klan, documents suggest. The meeting may shed light on the animus that Clarke—then the DOJ's…
Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently charged that the nation’s major law firms are infested with the woke ideology of the Left, infusing them with “institutional bias” and leading them to provide pro bono and other assistance on only one side of the political divide. After more than two decades in…
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s gross domestic product grew…
This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran a $31.7 billion trade deficit with China. That was the largest trade deficit the United States ran that month with any nation—and it continued a long-standing pattern. In 2024, according…
In 1998, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw published a bestselling book about Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. He called it, and them, “The Greatest Generation.” He had good reason to. While all generations must steward the nation through both good and bad times, they tend…
President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks. What’s making Trump’s moves so effective is that many of these networks are based on government functions that long…
Once the embodiment of the American dream, California has become a cautionary tale of failed policies and ideological excess, writes Steve Hilton, author of the new book, “Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of America’s Worst-Run State.” In an interview with The Daily Signal, Hilton, a Fox News contributor who moved to California in 2012 and has…
St. Pope John Paul II passed away 20 years ago this April 2. Serving him between 1989 and 2005, first as his bodyguard and then as an adviser to the Holy See, was such a privilege. It was such a grace to know the Holy Father and be near him, that I feel duty-bound to…
Mexico City—“Now,” Elon Musk responded this week on the social media site he bought two years ago and renamed X. What was this an answer to? This post by the evolutionary biologist Gad Saad: “What is it going to take for the West to wake up? When will the West reclaim its heritage, culture, values, freedoms, and…
President Donald Trump’s pace since returning to the White House has surprised the president’s friends, perhaps even more than his enemies. On the 66th day of his administration, Trump signed the 100th executive order of his second term, breaking FDR’s record of 99 executive orders in the first 100 days. While Trump plows ahead, the…
Down in the basement of the Capitol on Wednesday, I witnessed in person an episode of government accountability that upset liberal journalists. That’s because it was conservatives holding leftist “public” media networks accountable. The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency questioned PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher about their daily deluge…
Considering the massive propaganda effort to brainwash Americans into believing that climate change will doom humanity if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels yesterday, it is impressive to see just how little the American public buys the narrative. A recent poll finds that Americans value energy independence, keeping car prices lower, and reducing the cost…
Michael LaRosa was Jill Biden’s press secretary for the first 18 months of Joe Biden’s presidency, and in recent weeks he’s loosened his lips about how Team Joe mistreated a pliant press corps. In an interview with Cenk Uygur on “The Young Turks” show, LaRosa admitted: “They did bully a lot of journalists, and I…
President Donald Trump ended federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.” Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering $270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of “Snow White,” joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs….
What would you call an organization that collects money from the public and distributes it to organizations that fund riots that result in billions of dollars in damages, that transfer the money to bail out criminals who ultimately kill and victimize innocent Americans, that support terrorist organizations, and that pay for people that engage in…