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Progressives keep poor families trapped in a cycle of government dependency, and yet they continue to shut down the federal government—harming the very struggling Americans they claim to care for most. Meanwhile, conservatives support a safety net to offer a hand up to support people bouncing back from difficult times. Unfortunately, Democrats are hijacking this…
“We’re back. Columbus Day. We’re back, Italians. We love the Italians.” That was President Donald Trump on Thursday to his Cabinet as he signed a proclamation to honor Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day, to be celebrated on Monday. “Columbus, obviously, discovered the New World in 1492,” Trump said. “He was a great Italian explorer. He…
Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics are cited, and carefully crafted talking points are deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and walk the sidewalks of Baltimore, Chicago, or Los…
The 2026 elections are 13 months away, and they’ll especially matter in Ohio. Not only will redistricting play a role, but there’s also the gubernatorial race, with Vivek Ramaswamy likely replacing term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine, a fellow Republican. As has been the case for the past few election cycles, Ohio is a state to watch,…
The United Nations General Assembly has long been a stage for lofty speeches and predictable platitudes. But the 80th session in New York was different. This year, the mood was not celebratory. Speaker after speaker admitted what has been obvious for years: The U.N. is failing. It cannot prevent wars, resolve crises, or even inspire…
The Sunrise Movement just announced a strategic pivot. No longer content to focus primarily on climate change, its leaders now declare their mission is to “stop authoritarianism.” In practice, this means fewer conversations about the environment and more mobilizations against President Donald Trump. Notorious for their full-throated endorsement of the Green New Deal, Sunrise activists regularly…
A basic truth is that nothing stays the same. This is true for any individual or any nation. Each day, you are not the same person you were yesterday. Either you are moving forward or backward. Either you are improving or deteriorating. I often quote historian Arnold Toynbee that “an autopsy of history would show…
The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing “anti-woke” Bari Weiss to the new post of editor-in-chief. None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don’t have an ideology. They call themselves courageously “independent.” Paramount Chief Executive…
President Donald Trump is successfully waging a counterrevolution against left-wing institutions using the bully pulpit and his rightful political authority. The academic Left thinks this amounts to war. That was the take by a series of academics in a lengthy article by New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall. In his piece titled “Trump Is…
Much has already been written regarding the case of Jay Jones, the Democratic Party candidate for Virginia’s next attorney general. This addition to the volumes already written concerns the job he wants: a position inartfully referred to as the commonwealth’s “top cop.” Spearheading investigations and acting on behalf of the Virginia taxpayers, the job can…
The Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have been lying through their teeth about the government shutdown and their ridiculous demands to reopen the government. This week, Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., joins “The Signal Sitdown” to debunk the Left’s chosen narratives about the government shutdown. ”They’re big mad about [President] Donald Trump,” Johnson…
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. We’ve seen, since Oct. 7, 2023, a new overt antisemitism, a new candor about prejudice against…
In July, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. penned a piece titled “The good news about murder,” purporting to explain how and why violent crime rates rose during the pandemic years but have drastically fallen since. The problem? In his column, he conspicuously ignores the pre-pandemic crime spikes in cities with “progressive” policies and conveniently memory-holes…
Israel’s battlefield victories haven’t kept it from losing support among Americans. The New York Times recently released some jaw-dropping poll results on U.S. support for Israel—more accurately, the lack thereof. Forty percent believe Israel is intentionally killing civilians. Just 25% say Israel is taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties. There are major splits by…
On just its second day of the 2025-26 term, the Supreme Court heard arguments in one of its most important cases. Chiles v. Salazar involves a challenge to a Colorado law that allows licensed counselors to address issues of sexuality and gender only from the state’s approved ideological perspective. The Supreme Court’s decision will have…
How do we know which are the best colleges? Traditional ratings rank schools based on the average GPA or test scores of entering students. But the ability to attract bright students does not mean those colleges provide a quality education once they enroll. That’s why The Heritage Foundation partnered with College Pulse, a research and…
WINCHESTER, Virginia—The one thing that has been consistent in covering Virginia’s off-year statewide elections since as far back as the year Republicans George Allen and Jim Gilmore ran for governor and attorney general, respectively, in 1993 is that the races really don’t start moving until September. And when they do, they move fast. Allen began…
If one theme emerged from the second annual Essential Summit in Columbus, Ohio, it’s that it’s as important as ever to stand up for the family. In fact, this year’s event, put on by the Center for Christian Virtue, was titled “Reviving the Roots—Restoring the Family.” The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal were key…
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. Normally, America does not care when a superintendent of public instruction or a school district is…
It seems in the wake of increasing political violence, assassinations, and left-wing terrorism, you can count on left-leaning judges to go easy on perpetrators. That’s the takeaway from the lenient sentencing of Nicholas Roske, a man—who now identifies as a woman—convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roske received a sentence on Friday…