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It is becoming increasingly evident that smartphones—and the social media that comes with them—are resulting in alarming rates of depression and other detrimental behaviors among teenagers and young adults. And as a society, we are all paying the price. A recent study, tracking over 100,000 between the ages of 18-24 who received smartphones before age 13…
Winning the war of ideas isn’t enough. Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There’s a reason the Left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court even struck down affirmative action…
This is a preview of Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with E.J. Antoni, chief economist at The Heritage Foundation. Don’t miss the interview by turning on YouTube notifications for when the episode premieres at 6:30 a.m. EST on Oct. 2. On Tuesday, the nomination of E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at The Heritage Foundation, to…
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. On Sept. 23, President Donald Trump gave an address to the United Nations. It was a…
The “Schumer Shutdown” is here and Democrats have essentially reversed 30 years of messaging about the dangers of closing the government. Forty-three Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., voted against a stopgap budget measure Tuesday night that triggered a government shutdown. This came over protests by congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump….
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., actually went through with it. He and Senate Democrats shut down the government over using American taxpayer dollars to fund transgender surgery for minors, abortion, and illegal immigrants’ health care. And I can’t help but respect it. In a country with democratic institutions, it takes real courage to take…
On Sept. 28, 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion pill mifepristone. Twenty-five years later, the devastation is hard to fully capture. In the wake of mifepristone’s approval, millions of unborn children have been lost—reversing the enduring long-term decline of abortion in America. Meanwhile, their mothers suffered immeasurable harms—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. And…
President Donald Trump stated yesterday that a broad settlement with Harvard University was near at hand. But the determination of solid blue college administrations and faculties to thwart Trump’s policies to combat antisemitism and racial discrimination in admissions and to reduce the cost of higher education means that Harvard and, before it, Columbia University, will just…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Amid mounting pushback, Sen. Dick Durbin, a pro-abortion Democrat from Illinois, declined a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, had planned to present Durbin with the honor at the “Keep Hope Alive” Benefit on Nov….
After almost 20 years, PBS is reviving its fan-favorite “Reading Rainbow” kids educational show—this time, with a cast of woke hosts. If you were looking for another reason to justify the defunding of PBS, now you have one. “Reading Rainbow,” trademarked by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, first aired in 1983 to help kids continue reading through the summer to keep their minds sharp and avoid the “summer loss” phenomenon. The read-along show ran for 26 years until…
In mid-2024, as she grew increasingly critical of the Biden administration and increasingly involved with the Trump campaign, Tulsi Gabbard noticed changes as she went to the airport. She had more screening. Federal agents with dogs kept showing up for her flights. Other federal agents followed her on the plane and reported back on her…
Many times over Charlie Kirk’s career, those who opposed the idea of anyone hearing his conservative message would threaten to disrupt the college campuses where his Turning Point USA was attempting to hold an event. This would give the school administrators just enough cover to pull the plug on an event under the guise of…
Charlie Kirk’s assassination shocked the country. But what may be even more disturbing is the reaction from some corners of K-12 education: teachers celebrating his murder. The very people charged with shaping young minds cheered political violence. If you’re a parent, that should shake you. As a parent myself, I can’t imagine sending my kid…
As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur. She died last Thursday, age 78, an honored guest of Cuba’s Communist regime—and honored, disgracefully, by tenured radicals…
Imagine if airlines couldn’t fly nonstop between the East and West coasts. Instead, all flights would have to stop in the middle of the country so customers could catch another airline’s plane for the last half of the trip. That would be a frustrating inconvenience, and it would make coast-to-coast trips costlier and far less…
President Donald Trump’s executive order just put a $100,000 fee on new petitions for H-1B temporary workers. The rollout suffered from muddled communication, and the order does not stop the H-1B from being used to replace American workers—but it’s a sorely needed first step. Created more than 30 years ago to fill a temporary labor shortage, the H-1B…
Now that Democrats have shut down the government by voting against a clean continuing resolution that would have kept funding at Biden-era levels, President Donald Trump needs to fulfill his threat to fire more bureaucrats. While Republicans offered to keep funding the government at Biden levels until Congress can pass annual funding legislation, Democrats have…
I’ve witnessed many moments of “America is back” catharsis this year, but few have been quite as inspiring as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s declaration that he will strive to make every unit the efficient killing machine that he’d be proud to see his own son enlist to join. Speaking at the Marine base in…
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. I would like to talk about the legal aspects of the recent indictment of James Comey,…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Records indicate that an illegal migrant with a criminal rap sheet was a registered Democrat voter before being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyanese national living unlawfully in the U.S., was caught with a loaded handgun and thousands of dollars in cash at the time of his apprehension…