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If there were ever a modern-day equivalent to the Trojan horse, it would be former President Joe Biden’s absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act. As the name suggests, the bill was sold as a measure to reduce inflation. Yet once passed and embedded in the heart of our fiscal system, it revealed itself to be a…
Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe’s leaders the way President Donald Trump does, but he too has a tough message for them. “Hear for yourself how it sounds,” he said last month: Five hundred million Europeans begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians. If you can…
The Department of Government Efficiency is right to look into waste, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Defense, and the first place to look is in the dollars being misdirected away from warfighting capabilities. The U.S. military has struggled to meet demands for actual warfighting equipment, such as ships, fighter jets, and munitions. Many…
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Central Pennsylvania state Sen. Greg Rothman, the newly elected state Republican Party chairman, will face his first big challenge this year with the control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the ballot. Rothman, who won the party chairmanship with overwhelming support in a 248-120 vote last month, will look to fill three state Supreme…
Lasting political change doesn’t come from winning elections but reshaping institutions. On Feb. 26, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, issued a stunning announcement. “I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” he wrote on X. “We are going to be writing every…
Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t make this up. The Left’s war on language has reached a new level of insanity, and this time, they’ve set their sights on one of the most sacred and fundamental…
In the entirety of President Donald Trump’s hour and 40-minute address to Congress, almost all Democrats refused to stand for a single thing the president said—from promises for peace in Ukraine to honoring a 13-year-old battling brain cancer. Here is what the Democrats showed the American people they quite literally do not stand for.
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump demonstrated the exact qualities that allowed him to walk past a failing legacy media establishment and right back into the White House. Trump said just before he delivered his speech to a joint session of Congress that he would “tell it like it is.” Well, he did. Trump explained…
President Donald Trump turned his joint address to Congress into a rally Tuesday night, declaring “America is back,” and connecting the vigorous actions taken in the first six weeks of his administration to the campaign promises made en route to a mandate victory for Republicans in the 2024 election. Trump’s speech came just six weeks…
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. Recently, there’s been a lot of controversy because five former secretaries of defense—that would be Lloyd…
Step aside Elon Musk and make way for the “OG” of DOGE, James Madison. This week in 1788, Madison’s Federalist No. 62 was published in The [New York] Independent Journal. The essays we know collectively today as The Federalist Papers, each authored under the pseudonym Publius by Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, have stood the test of time…
For President Donald Trump, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s $100 billion investment in U.S. chip manufacturing represented “a tremendous leap—like, a leap that nobody would have really said was possible.” But TSMC’s $100 billion is just a small part of the at least $3 trillion in investments and trade commitments the Trump administration has racked…
This week, first lady Melania Trump participated in a roundtable discussion with lawmakers and victims about the scourge of “revenge porn”—viz., the online posting of intimate photographs or films without the consent of the party involved. She urged lawmakers to pass the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks…
This is the fifth in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested $40 billion in federal aid to assist California in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires last month. As a Pacific Palisades resident, I can attest the devastation is catastrophic and funds are desperately needed. However, the Trump administration is poised, understandably, to tie a lot of strings to any…
When debates over education often focus on what we’re against—bureaucratic overreach, ideological indoctrination, declining standards—a refreshing alternative has emerged. The Phoenix Declaration, unveiled by The Heritage Foundation under the leadership of Jason Bedrick, offers a compelling vision for what conservatives are for in education. Launched at the Conservative Vision of Education Conference in Phoenix on…
President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk are trying to rightsize the entire federal enterprise, just as companies—large and small—do daily. Democrats are having none of it. Indeed, their rage over DOGE knows no borders. “Donald Trump has turned the White House into ‘The Elon Musk Show,’” House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries of…
Hannah Schlacter, a 2024 University of California at Berkeley graduate with an MBA, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that the university violated federal law by failing to properly report anti-Jewish hate incidents during the fall 2023 semester. The complaint, detailed in documents reviewed by The Daily Signal, follows Schlacter’s…
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. On Friday, recently, on the 28th of February, we saw one of the most extraordinary things…
For decades, women fought for the equal rights that men in this country had enjoyed from its inception. Yet recently, and under Democrat rule, these hard-fought freedoms have been thrown into jeopardy from the Left demanding that women share their sports and private spaces with men pretending to be the opposite sex. Female athletes have…