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The new school year is upon us. Children, teachers, and administrators from around the country are gearing up for the new academic year. This time of year is filled with excitement, as well as healthy anxiety about a new season of learning and relationships. As we prepare for the school season, it is also an…
Actor Andrew Barth Feldman’s imminent substitution for the Tony-winning and severely talented Darren Criss in “Maybe Happy Ending” has launched a brouhaha on Broadway. Feldman is white. This, according to actor B.D. Wong and some 2,400 signatories to his open letter of complaint, disqualifies Feldman from portraying that show’s lead character. Oliver is a retired robot in Seoul,…
The best pro-family policies are those that champion the entire family—not just from the moment of conception, but the lifelong health and well-being of parents and children alike. That’s why the recent Washington Post report about the White House considering a broader approach to fertility care rather than an in vitro fertilization mandate shouldn’t be…
The other morning, I was walking through Union Station and stopped short. It was clean. Strangely clean. No vagrants harassing commuters or tourists. No drugged-out shouting matches. Not even the ever-present fog of marijuana that seems to hang over every street corner in Washington, D.C. these days. But as I took in the rare calm,…
One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide “advice and consent” for the president’s nominations. America’s Founders saw this as a “silent operation,” with the possibility of rejection an “excellent check” that would discourage “the appointment of unfit characters.” Instead, Democrats have made it a very loud way to fight President Donald Trump,…
“The Rabbit Club,” the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America’s finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down. It includes Oxford University, secret societies, danger and suspense at every turn, and a sense of anticipation much needed in a world filled with instant gratification. Yates says penning novels with intricate story…
I am addicted! To my phone. I check an email and before I realize it, I’m watching TikTok videos: lions fight hyenas, military dads reunite with kids, athletes do amazing things … I look up, and an hour has passed. I’ve wasted time, ignored my family and friends, and accomplished nothing. But who cares? I’m…
Transgender advocates say their movement is about compassion and acceptance, but is it not extremely cruel to gaslight children into taking experimental drugs with documented harms but no proof they improve their lives? Is there anything more disempowering or dehumanizing than saying your natural process of puberty is so drastic a threat to your mental…
Articles addressing energy and climate topics in The New York Times increasingly include inaccurate data and false information. The problem is compounded by the paper’s failure to follow its own corrections policy when errors are called to its attention. Readers look to the Times to deliver well-reasoned and fact-checked information and analysis in areas where they are…
A genocide may be about to quietly unfold in Sudan. But it’s not too late to stop it. President Donald Trump and U.S. officials must increase pressure on the Rapid Support Forces and the United Arab Emirates, which holds considerable sway over the Rapid Support Forces, to stop the disaster and save the nearly 1…
Two months after the breathtaking Operation Midnight Hammer strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the ceasefire with Israel that soon followed, President Donald Trump has once again upended conventional foreign policy wisdom. After years of escalatory rhetoric, moral posturing, and seemingly endless funding packages, Trump’s twin high-profile summits with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska…
WASHINGTON—You’ve seen the video. Big-rig driver Harjinder Singh tries to make an illegal U-turn on a Florida Turnpike. The semi-truck jackknifed and blocked all lanes of traffic. Those in the minivan destroyed in the Aug. 12 crash never had a chance. The collision killed the driver and two passengers. The question on everyone’s mind: How…
The White House last week informed Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, that it’s putting the museums under review—in other words, adult supervision. The news came in a letter that amounted to a major front in the Trump administration’s war to retake the culture. As I wrote in an X post quoted by The New York Times, “Given the Smithsonian’s behavior in…
“Democratic socialists” have been getting the teenage-idol treatment from giddy reporters and editors at legacy media outlets for years. Their newest crush, as New Yorkers already know, is jihadi-apologist and Marxist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. In a 4,500-word cover story headlined “The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani,” Time magazine paints a caricature of…
If they gave out patches for passing the Presidential Daydreaming Test at Rosecroft Elementary, I’d have gotten more patches than a quilt. But alas, it took passing the Presidential Fitness Test to be so honored. News that President Donald Trump was reinstituting that Presidential Fitness Test brought me right back to Rosecroft. Or more accurately,…
While Washington, D.C., residents are enjoying feeling safe on the streets of their community once again, angry middle-class suburban protesters want the National Guard to leave the crime-ridden city. When Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the National Guard troops at Union Station this week, protesters used their First Amendment rights…
Washington is flailing. The establishment has gone into a full meltdown over one man: EJ Antoni. Why? Because he’s telling the truth taxpayers already know—America’s economic data system is broken, politicized, and no longer trusted. For decades, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to be the gold standard of government data. Today, it’s a…
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 talked about the challenges to big multiracial democracies like the United States, India, and Brazil….
If a self-described leader finds that nobody is following, is leadership present? Perhaps. The next question might be, where is the leader headed? These queries could well be put to the European Union’s makers of energy policy, who fancy themselves as groundbreakers for a supposed transition away from fossil fuels in favor of “green” technologies….
Calling pharmaceutical ads an “embarrassment,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ and Maine Sen. Angus King’s self-righteousness is on full display. More importantly, the two demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the benefits enabled by the drug advertisements we have all become accustomed to seeing. If implemented, their bill to ban such ads in print and on TV,…