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President Donald Trump has inherited an unstable world from his successor. His administration has the daunting task of simultaneously bringing two wars, one in Ukraine, the other in the Levant, to a close. On the heels of a Tuesday phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Curt Mills, executive director of The American…
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. The last week we’ve been hearing a lot about these lies. I guess there’s no other…
Editor’s note: An X post in this article contains language that might be offensive to some readers. It would have felt hypocritical to not speak up, Payton McNabb says, remembering how nervous she felt to confront the man standing in the women’s restroom on her college campus. For months, McNabb had been advocating for…
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit recently determined that the efforts of a Florida middle school to help a minor child socially transition to a different gender behind her parents’ backs were not sufficiently egregious to “shock the conscience” and allow the parents’ claim to proceed. But in granting…
The deep state and its allies have launched a torrent of lawsuits, teaming up with activist judges to try to tie President Donald Trump’s hands on policy, and when the chief justice of the Supreme Court finally intervened, he did so on behalf of the lawless aggressors. Make no mistake: He sided with the revolt…
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about birth data for 2023 is out. For everyone concerned about the long-term decline in America’s birth rate, the report doesn’t show strong signs that much has changed. Why should we care about declining birth rates, and what’s driving the trend? As a recent…
President Donald Trump’s economic priority shouldn’t be preventing a recession. Stock prices are always a bit of a roller coaster. Over the last month, it’s mostly been a downhill ride. In mid-February, the S&P 500 hit 6,144. It’s now dipped below 5,525. That’s around a 10% drop, which means the market is in correction territory….
SAXONBURG, Pa.–Small businesses have been the backbone of the United States since its founding. The Hotel Saxonburg, which has also been known as the Vogeley House, the Belvedere House, the Laube House, and the Central Hotel, opened in 1835 and has lasted most of our nation’s existence. The new owners abruptly closed the hotel March…
Most people know the story of David and Goliath. It’s an epic tale of a shepherd boy vanquishing a giant with nothing more than a pebble and sling, putting him on a path to become the most famous king of Israel. The story has war, politics, fracturing kingdoms, powerful seers, an underdog hero, and of…
It seems that wokeness in its most toxic and obnoxious forms has been forced into retreat here in America, but in the England, it’s apparently still burning out of control. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which manages William Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, has reportedly announced that it will “decolonize” future celebrations of the great playwright over…
Our southern border isn’t a line on a map. It’s a gaping hole in our national security and it’s bleeding us dry. Mexican cartels flood our streets with fentanyl, traffic humans, and exploit vulnerabilities that could allow terrorists to slip through. President Joe Biden spent four years pretending it wasn’t a problem, letting chaos explode…
Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in the federal government include minimizing the amount of taxpayer-funded time that federal employees spend working for their unions instead of doing the jobs they were hired to perform. This “paid union leave” is otherwise known as “official time.” A Feb. 27 memo…
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. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, as I had mentioned earlier, has had a series of podcast interviews and…
Virginians are bracing for another onslaught of national politicians and pundits hell-bent to prove during the commonwealth’s upcoming off-year gubernatorial election that Donald Trump’s win in November was either a mandate or a fluke. And for once, there appeared to be a clear, primary-free, path for Republicans in the state to rally early around a…
The Trump administration is threatening to cut $400 million in research funding at Columbia University unless the institution remedies its failure to comply with Title VI civil rights requirements to protect its Jewish students. Columbia University is responding with threats of its own, saying that some beneficial projects in medical science will have to be…
D.A. King was well on his way to demonstrating in court that the Southern Poverty Law Center twisted the truth in branding his organization an “anti-immigrant hate group” and placing it on the SPLC “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. A former insurance agent, King started a nonprofit aimed at encouraging Georgia…
For many elected and appointed public figures, public service has proved to be extraordinarily lucrative. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Joe Biden and his extended family, and former COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci come to mind in that regard. For conservative talk radio titan Dan Bongino, not so much. In fact, it will be…
WASHINGTON—Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the presumption of innocence. But if a jury finds him guilty of the capital murder of which he…
If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also has symbolic value in the fight for freedom. Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up in the nation’s capital. Just like the wall that separated free, capitalist West Berlin from communist…
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. President Donald Trump caused a stir, again, when he suggested that the recent independence vote in…