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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…
Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump’s landmark Day-One executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”…
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. In this first two weeks of the Trump new tenure, there’s just been a flurry of news and disinformation. We’ve heard about all of these…
In politics, few figures have demonstrated the kind of transactional decisiveness that President Donald Trump exemplifies. His recent dealings with the Colombian government underscore the efficacy of his approach. Regardless of whether you agree with his broader policies, it’s hard to deny the fact that, so far, the president has been decisive and effective on…
You knew this was coming. California’s Democrat legislators presented a bill Monday to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the Los Angeles fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Senate Bill 222 aims to blame the fires on climate change caused by fossil fuels and make the oil companies bankroll the state’s underfunded insurance…
Executive orders, bills signed, and a media firestorm with far more bark than bite sum up the bevy of news this episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” hits. From illegal immigration and Guantanamo Bay to freezes on hiring and strange grant funding, the second Trump administration is moving with a momentum never before seen in…
The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and to protect that relationship from outside intrusion, like prohibiting gender education in schools. One of the greatest threats facing the parent-child relationship today comes through smartphones and social media, Big Tech’s digital products, that have…
I have noticed a shocking trend in my conversations with families in my state and across the nation. For the past year, at almost every event I attended and when running into folks at restaurants, outside my offices and around the state, I asked a simple question, “Do you trust that the FBI and the…
The budget reconciliation process stands as President Donald Trump’s and congressional Republicans’ best—and likely only—hope to pass their agenda through Congress. While this policymaking mechanism has become more well-known in recent years because recent presidents have used it to get their policies through Congress, the budget reconciliation process is difficult to untangle—even for the seasoned…
There’s little need to become an interplanetary country if we can’t populate the country we already have. President Donald Trump’s inaugural address didn’t just include an amazing list of things he wants to do. It cast an aspirational vision for Americans to rally around. “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation,”…
An ongoing principle of America’s democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation. Sometimes, cracks appear. Sometimes, they grow and get larger…
This week, China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta, and Google. The fact that China was able to develop DeepSeek without a heavy supply of sophisticated microchips from Nvidia sent Nvidia stock spiraling, along with the other major tech companies in the United…
The policies coming out of Washington, D.C., have the potential to affect Americans who have not even been born yet, whether for good or bad. The latest National Report Card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paints an abysmal picture of education across the U.S. The report card is published every two years and…
A Chinese artificial intelligence model known as DeepSeek caused a shake-up on Wall Street Monday. The AI model has raised concerns over China’s ability to manufacture cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Daniel Cochrane, a senior research associate for the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation, joined The Daily Signal’s “Top News in 10” podcast to…
America is so back. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a task force to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, which will take place on July 4, 2026. While the Left has tried to pummel any love for American history, Trump’s move ensures anti-American activists won’t have the last word….
Two welcome changes from the new White House in its first weeks are the turn away from diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and a fresh look at school choice. A great example is President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday on education choice for military families, just in time for National School Choice Week (Jan….
The Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump ordered a temporary freeze of federal funding Monday, aiming to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering." While that order has since been rescinded amid a legal challenge, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that efforts to "end…
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 want to talk today about the current nomination process, specifically Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s designate to be director of FBI. It’s causing perhaps…