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We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked. One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September 2024. The news appeared on page A24 of the…
Hillary Clinton’s secret to a “more perfect union”? Marginalize conservative Christian white men. When MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski asked the former first lady and secretary of state whether America is “still headed toward a ‘more perfect union’” on Wednesday, Clinton attacked conservatives as the reason why the country’s progress is “on pause.” “I…
After President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Health and Human Services was recommending women abstain from taking Tylenol during pregnancy, some pregnant women with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” began taking the drug in videos they shared on social media. “There is mounting evidence finding a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—and that’s…
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. In the past, I’ve talked about all the narratives that the Democratic Party elite and the…
Former FBI Director James Comey was expected to turn himself in Friday after being charged Thursday by the Justice Department with perjury and obstruction of justice. (As of 8 p.m. Eastern time there’s no indication he has, though he does face a scheduled federal arraignment date of Oct. 9.) The question I have is: “How…
Imagine checking your child’s homework folder only to find paperwork labeled with a different name and pronouns. That’s exactly what happened to Dan and Jennifer Mead of Rockford, Michigan. And as they discovered, this wasn’t a folder mix-up—it was part of a school plan to socially transition their child from a girl to a boy…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s flirtation with a presidential run is the latest warning sign of just how far the Democratic Party’s leadership has careened off the rails. After crushing defeats in the latest election, moderate Democrats have failed to take matters into their own hands, continuing to kneel to the strength of the far-left wing of…
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated this month, it marked not the beginning of political violence in America, but the culmination of a movement that started decades ago. The roots of this crisis trace back to the classrooms of our universities, where speech was redefined, dissent demonized, and violence reframed as justice. In the early 2000s,…
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. Not long ago, the House of Representatives passed a resolution commemorating the tragic shooting of the…
President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tylenol signals a return to restraint—something sorely missing in American health care. On Monday, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce a link between women’s use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. Given strong recommendations against counterparts like Advil and aspirin, Tylenol has been the analgesic of choice…
Three hundred Chinese children matched with adoptive American families have been stranded in orphanages for six years. Families are pleading with President Donald Trump to bring them home. As President Donald Trump conducts negotiations with China on a global scale, grand strategy isn’t the only matter likely to be affected. Nearly 300 little lives hang…
When it comes to free speech on campus, Virginia universities aren’t making the grade. On Sept. 23, I published a column detailing how some Virginia universities rank in the latest College Free Speech Rankings from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. The rankings report gives universities in the commonwealth an overall score of 64.1/100…
A recent congressional hearing has highlighted the concerning role of the Chinese Communist Party in America’s drug supply chain. The House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability organized the hearing on Sept. 18, titled “Invasion of the Homeland: How China is Using Illegal Marijuana to Build a Criminal Network Across America.” The witnesses who testified…
If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the constitutional authority of the president as head of the executive branch, it will finally overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. after 90 years of poisoning the government well. If you’ve never heard of…
President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was the latest example of how our “independent fact-checkers” are better defined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their selection bias is transparent. PolitiFact was live-blogging and throwing “Pants on Fire” rulings on its X account. For example, Trump claimed we were losing 300,000 Americans to fentanyl,…
This is a preview of this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Don’t miss politics editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon by watching on YouTube. There are few, if any, more qualified to talk about America’s scourge of left-wing violence and the organizations that commit it than Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon who…
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel got his job back with ABC but forgive me if I don’t care too much about his underwhelming, delayed apology to keep himself on air or his defense of “free speech.” Kimmel was briefly suspended by ABC, which is owned by Disney, after he made a comment that Charlie Kirk was assassinated…
America just experienced another tragic and preventable act of violence. Joshua Jahn, a criminal radicalized by hateful anti-law enforcement rhetoric from the Democrats, committed an act of leftist terrorism against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. He undoubtedly was targeting law enforcement agents. He killed one person and wounded two more before turning…
The assassination of Charlie Kirk and other recent shootings that appear motivated by transgender ideology raise questions about the potential radicalizing nature of heated rhetoric on the issue, particularly from influential groups like the Human Rights Campaign. While the Human Rights Campaign does not call for violence against conservatives, it publishes reports claiming there is…
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’d like to talk about a concept called “systems collapse.” Anthropologists use it. Historians use it….