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23 Books to Read in 2026
By[email protected] January 2, 2026April 22, 2026

As you set your 2026 goals, reading lists, and New Year’s resolutions, The Daily Signal is proud to offer you some of our favorite reads from 2025. We asked our own staff, plus others from The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, for their thoughts and to offer some of their recommendations. They are listed below. 1. ‘Israel…

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At Long Last, Washington Remembers Its Own Neighborhood
By[email protected] January 2, 2026April 22, 2026

At the dawn of the new year, the most important foreign-policy debate facing the United States isn’t unfolding in Ukraine or the Middle East. It’s playing out much closer to home—in Central and South America. The United States has long viewed the Western Hemisphere like a fire extinguisher: important in theory, hopefully unnecessary, out of…

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What the Education Department’s New Portal Means for Foreign Influence on University Campuses
By[email protected] January 2, 2026April 22, 2026

On Jan. 2, the Department of Education officially launched its new and improved portal for universities to report foreign funding. In an earlier update, the department noted, the “current reporting portal had not been meaningfully updated since the first Trump administration.” This new portal is intended to make it easier for higher ed institutions to…

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Victor Davis Hanson Answers a Listener’s Question About Tanks
By[email protected] January 2, 2026April 27, 2026

In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson answers a round of questions submitted by listeners. Here he’s asked about tanks and tank warfare. This episode was recorded before Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition…

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The Media’s Revealing Fawning Over Pelosi
By[email protected] January 1, 2026April 22, 2026

Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She’s always the Best Ever. On CBS’s “Sunday Morning” in early 2024, substitute host Tracy Smith announced Pelosi “has a new book out, ‘The Art…

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Will America Collapse?
By[email protected] January 1, 2026April 22, 2026

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire,” says Cornel West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us? If we don’t learn from history, says historian…

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Assisted Suicide Comes to the American Heartland
By[email protected] December 31, 2025April 22, 2026

A cold winter is well underway in the American Midwest, and the ice is taking many forms. The weather has been dark and forbidding, but the other frozen form is in the shape of assisted suicide. On Dec. 12, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed into law a bill that makes his state the…

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What’s in Store for Mamdani’s ‘New Era’ in New York
By[email protected] December 31, 2025April 22, 2026

When Jan. 1 rolls around, New York City will have its first self-avowed socialist mayor. As a New York resident and a keen observer of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s rise to power, I thought it worthwhile to write what I expect of him in the new year. A lot is riding on Mamdani’s success for the…

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Mamdani Takes Over New York, Property Owners Take Cover
By[email protected] December 31, 2025April 22, 2026

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to move into public housing, New York City’s Gracie Mansion Thursday, when he assumes power on New Year’s Day. This is good for him and his wife, Rama Duwaji, as he is about to make owning private property in the Big Apple a riskier proposition. Mamdani’s flagship housing policy has been to completely…

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Trump Should Seize This Opportunity to Correct His Unforced Error
By[email protected] December 31, 2025April 22, 2026

I voted for Donald Trump for president three times, and would again, but his social media post about Rob Reiner after the recent killing of the leftist Hollywood actor-director was unpresidential and, to say the least, uncharitable. But it was an unforced error that Trump will have the opportunity next week to make amends for. The…

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Why the US Is Worried About China’s Military Drills
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

On Dec. 29, Washington, D.C., woke up to an array of news stories, but the one meriting greatest attention is China’s surprise military drills around Taiwan. These drills are not merely exercises—they are full dress rehearsals for a blockade and invasion of Taiwan. Deterring such an invasion and larger conflict is in America’s vital national…

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Virginia GOP Senate Candidate Withdraws, Explains to Daily Signal Why
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

Many political viewers in Virginia were gearing up to watch the 2026 U.S. Senate race between state Sen. Bryce Reeves and long-time incumbent Sen. Mark Warner. However, the week began with news that Reeves was pulling out of the race to focus on the health of a loved one. On the plus-side, he will remain…

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The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

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. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Everybody…

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Somali Fraud Story Explodes Due to the Democratization of DOGE
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 27, 2026

Democrats and legacy media really don’t want to keep talking about the Somali fraud scandal anymore, but the American people are stepping right around them. That’s my take as the story about a colossal Somali fraud ring in Minnesota explodes to the point where similar programs in other states are now being rightly looked at with suspicion. What’s…

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What Spanberger Vetoes in 2026 Will Tell Us a Lot About 2028
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

Shortly after the 2025 election victories of Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Douglas MacKinnon penned an op-ed for The Hill titled “Forget Crockett and AOC: Spanberger, Sherrill are Democrats’ faces for 2028.” Now I’m beginning to hear from Richmond insiders that the bellwether will be if the governor’s veto pen gets a break this summer or not. Over…

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Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts. Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn’t—“The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Vol. 1”—has decamped for the University of Florida’s Hamilton School of…

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Cardinal John Joseph O’Connor: Born to Serve
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

Cardinal John Joseph O’Connor’s vocation to serve the spiritual needs of God’s children—in war and in peace, in life and in death—has left a legacy that transcends the bounds of today’s narrow, irreligious politics. Born to Serve John Joseph O’Connor was born in 1920 in the great American city of Philadelphia to an Irish Catholic…

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Making New Year’s Resolutions That Matter
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 22, 2026

Somewhere between 30%-50% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, reports from last year show. A study from YouGov revealed some of the more common resolutions made and whether people think they’ll keep their resolutions. More than a quarter of participants chose “saving more money,” while the second most popular resolution was “improving physical health.” However,…

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Why Would California Bureaucrats Want to Blow Up Dams and Take Water From 600K? Victor Davis Hanson Explains
By[email protected] December 30, 2025April 27, 2026

In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss how California bureaucrats and environmental lawyers are threatening to blow up dams and deny water to 600,000 residents, “a symbolic act to punish civilization and hurt people.” Editor’s note: This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson…

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Not in My Own Words, But in AI’s
By[email protected] December 29, 2025April 22, 2026

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. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d…

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