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These days, it’s not controversial to point out that on the Biden administration’s watch, the world has become far less stable and far more dangerous. The sudden and haphazard U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 surely emboldened our adversaries, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months later. And Russia, despite failing to take Ukraine…
Our nation’s capital is a model of dysfunctional, clueless blue city governance. Nothing highlights that better than the explosion of crime—and especially carjackings—since 2020. The official 2023 year-end tally of carjackings in Washington, D.C., ended up being a staggering 959, twice the number of the previous year. There were 152 carjackings in 2019. That number…
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Friday issued an executive order prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors in his state and issued draft administrative rules on so-called gender-affirming care for minors and adults. DeWine’s directives came a week after his Dec. 29 veto of House Bill 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which would…
Former President Donald Trump filed three motions Monday to dismiss his Georgia 2020 election case, including one claiming presidential immunity prevents his prosecution. The motions argue for dismissal based on due process grounds, double jeopardy and presidential immunity. The claims in Trump’s presidential immunity filing mirror those made in his bid to dismiss the federal indictment brought by special…
Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined. “When I say colorblind, it’s not naive at all,” says Archie, an author and professor at Colorado State University. “It speaks to a tradition that we find with…
President Joe Biden on Friday accused Donald Trump, his predecessor and the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, of wanting to be a dictator. Biden spoke at a community college about 15 miles east of Valley Forge, a historical site in the battleground state of Pennsylvania that Trump won in 2016 but lost in…
Numerous and compounding reasons led to Claudine Gay’s removal as president of Harvard University. Her departure, while a necessary first step, does not solve the problems that required her departure and that continue to plague Harvard and much of higher education. Gay was manifestly unqualified for the position, with only a fraction of the scholarly…
Twenty years ago, when I was hiring teachers for the private K-12 school I founded, I knew better than to recruit certified teachers. From my previous work as a college history professor, I know that the people least prepared to teach a subject are education majors. Requiring an embarrassingly low minimum of credit hours to be certified…
Same-sex couples and singles, no matter their sexual orientation, now qualify as infertile. That is, at least, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, whose guidelines now redefine infertility to include anyone who needs “donor eggs, sperm, or embryo to conceive as a couple or individual.” You read that right: Under this official new…
Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its monthlong scandal over her tenure. Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism—without refuting the charges. She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly antisemitic in speech and action. But Gay’s…
A few minutes before the ball came down on Times Square in New York on New Year’s Eve, Paul Anka sang a song that has become a tradition for this event. It was “Imagine,” a 1971 song that John Lennon co-authored with his wife, Yoko Ono. The song also has become something of a controversy—for…
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ——————————————————— “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” said British…
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination. The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life….
The trials and tribulations of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University who resigned this week after being exposed as both a Jew-hatred apologist and a serial plagiarist, perfectly expose America’s cultural divide. To the Right, she is the embodiment of the woke ideology and the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regime: a ruthless careerist…
The climate is changing, but is the change cause for concern? “There are natural climate cycles, which are normal,” research scientist Roy Spencer says, adding that “If you move beyond the temperature to things like storminess, you know, hurricane activity, there have been no demonstrable, long-term changes in anything other than a modest, relatively benign…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice responded to harsh criticism from Manhattan’s borough president, who attacked the parental rights group ahead of a town hall-style event later this month. Mark Levine, the borough president, said Wednesday that Moms for Liberty “has no place here” after he learned about the event, which…
From the Summer of Love to the Winter of Rage, the Left has now mastered the use of unleashing uncontrolled mobs on society to get its way. “It seems clear that progressive activists have established ‘Palestine’ as this year’s rallying cry, and it is therefore likely that the momentum of these protests, with their consistently…
Harvard University’s embattled president resigned Tuesday, but it would be a mistake to think that the troubles of that school or higher education in general are over. Harvard President Claudine Gay’s disastrous testimony and serial, blatant plagiarism were certainly good reasons to give her the boot. The Harvard Corporation Board, which decides who will be president of…
The leisurely pace of the new year gives birth to reflection. We celebrate the new year, but from time immemorial each new year proves the prescience of Ecclesiastes, that there is nothing new under the sun. Then why do the celebrations endure? Because hope springs eternal. Happiness is commonly the temporary suspension of disbelief. Dreams…
The scientific community doesn’t all agree on the core causes of climate change, and according to climate expert Willie Soon, humanity should look beyond Earth to find the source. The Earth’s rotation around the sun affects the planet’s temperature, says Soon, a visiting fellow on the Science Advisory Committee of the Center for Energy, Climate,…