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By using the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada and Mexico to pledge to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States, President Donald Trump pursued a novel legal theory. He declared an emergency then used his emergency authority to threaten to impose tariffs to get our neighbors to comply with his border enforcement…
Despite the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole of government” attempt to increase unionization, the percentage of American workers belonging to unions notched down each of the past four years of their administration. Marking yet another record low, 9.9% of American workers belonged to unions in 2023. This follows a steady decline from 13.4% at the turn of…
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. I’d like to talk a day about an irony. Maybe it’s something that’s a paradox. Have you noticed that there’s certain people who are coming…
President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working. Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the federal government to his administration. Armies of hostile bureaucrats stymied his plans, coordinated with legacy media to cook up negative stories, and generally behaved as if they—and not the president—had a right…
In the first week of February, Washington, D.C., will play host to the International Religious Freedom Summit, the largest annual nonprofit-led gathering of religious freedom advocates globally. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio should take the opportunity to quickly reorient religious freedom policy so that it is once again an American foreign…
After the disastrous foreign affairs failures of the Biden administration, many Americans were left wondering how a Trump administration could possibly correct course. Well, it’s finally Trump time, so here’s what one should expect. In many ways, today’s Donald Trump resembles the one we saw in 2016. Now, as then, Trump is neither an isolationist nor an imperialist; rather, he pursues an America-first policy tempered by realism and the understanding that sometimes one…
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. Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first week in office. One of them outlawed DEI—diversity, equity, inclusion—quotas, or reverse racial…
After 15 months of terrorist-supporting thugs engaging in acts of violence and intimidation against Jews with impunity, America finally has a president who takes combating antisemitism seriously. On Jan. 29, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making it “the policy of the United States to combat antisemitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal…
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once one of the richest countries in…
“Follow the science” is a common chorus among progressives. But often they, not those they moralize against, are the real science deniers. Take progressive prosecutors. Many, like George Gascon in Los Angeles, tout their soft-on-crime policies as “data driven” or “scientifically backed.” Yet this is a complete hoax. These prosecutors cite studies that are misleading, non-replicable,…
If the legacy media wanted to prove that the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion is a smokescreen for the Left’s woke priorities, it couldn’t do much better than USA Today’s response to President Donald Trump’s statement about Wednesday night’s horrific aircraft collision over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Trump blamed DEI for the crash,…
President Donald Trump is surging resources to America’s southern border, including military personnel, and has every right to do so, according to Robert Greenway. “It is not unprecedented for the military to be called in [to the border] when the capacity of our law enforcement agencies is exceeded, and that’s almost certainly the case now,”…
The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Democratic leaders went to the floor to attack a bill that congressional Republicans hoped they could send to Trump to sign into law. It was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. “Look, it is Donald Trump’s first week as president, and Republicans…
President Donald Trump recently floated a fantastic idea: Arab nations, he said, should accept large numbers of Gazans as refugees, a move that “could be temporary or long term.” The accommodation would allow Israel to eliminate the remnants of Hamas, which, in turn, would allow the international community to rebuild Gaza. Not only would such…
President Donald Trump has offered federal employees who don’t want to return to work a deal too good to refuse, and it may also weed out some of the deep state activists who otherwise would have planned to oppose Trump’s agenda from within the federal government. A new White House memo offers a hefty paycheck…
Military families exemplify the best of America—sacrifice, service, and dedication to our nation’s security. Yet, too often, their children are shortchanged by an education system that fails to meet their needs. As President Donald Trump begins his second term, we have an unprecedented opportunity to fix that. It’s time to empower military families with true education freedom…
President Donald Trump aims to prevent the government from wasting taxpayer funds promoting leftist causes often described as “woke,” such as Marxist equity, gender ideology, and climate alarmism. The Trump White House issued a memo ordering a pause in all federal grants and loans until the administration can align funds accordingly, but it rescinded the…
A day of reckoning has come for higher education. In the past four years, acolytes from America’s most prestigious universities not only continued their project of indoctrination on their own campuses, they also attempted to transform the whole country into a grander version of the higher education insane asylum. From tearing down history to defunding the…
“The most transparent president in history is back,” a Jan. 20 post on X from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read. Never was that more clear than on Jan. 23, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that the “continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of…
“Alonso said he arrived Jan. 15 in California after crossing over from Tijuana, Mexico, and turned himself over to Customs and Border Protection agents, hoping he could apply for asylum and begin working in the U.S. while his case was decided. He was quickly detained.”—The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 29. Every so often, a parable…