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Americans’ ability to speak to an online audience is rapidly being restricted by censorship laws in Europe and in states like California and New York, legal experts say. The proliferation of vaguely defined “hate speech” and “misinformation” laws, such as Europe’s Digital Services Act and California’s Defending Democracy Act, has raised concerns that these laws…
What has happened to Trump Derangement Syndrome? Has there been some new cure discovered or are we just developing herd immunity? Saturday, Aug. 2, was supposed to be the 50501 organization’s ninth day of action in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. It called it “Rage Against the Regime,” borrowing from the metal band’s name…
The U.S. Justice Department is 100% justified to conduct a criminal investigation of former President Barack Obama, former CIA Directors John Brennan and James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and others. Hillary Clinton should join this list. These thugs’ collective Russia hoax raped Lady Justice, jailed innocents (e.g., George Papadopoulos), and sentenced others to prison…
If a foreign government stole $1 billion from the U.S. economy, there would surely be a serious reaction. But Chinese fishing fleets could steal much more from American waters, robbing from a fishing industry worth $5.8 billion. In the Aleutian Bering Sea area alone, Coast Guard cutters and aircraft repeatedly encountered Chinese vessels—including military ships—operating…
Like a teacher cleaning the classroom before school opens, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is sweeping out the inefficiencies in her agency—but instead of helping, some in the U.S. Senate want to shove dust under the rug. Education Department officials are doing just what was promised in an executive order earlier this year calling…
In 1982, the historian Russell Kirk invited me to attend a meeting of the Philadelphia Society. It was at that meeting that I met Ed Feulner, the founder of the now formidable Heritage Foundation. We have been friends ever since. A few days ago, Ed passed away. Many tributes have been and will be written…
What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana fields? Surely, this would be a moment for mental clarity and political cohesion, where federal law enforcement officials are recognized for their good work. That was not what happened. Instead, Democrat leaders rushed to…
Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the Left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement. Nowhere is this more apparent…
Poor health and obesity, and the chronic diseases that accompany them, cost this country billions of dollars. President Donald Trump, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is on a mission to end that, and he’s starting with our children. It’s often said that you can’t outrun a bad diet. The implication…
Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful. It limits competition, raises costs, leaves consumers with fewer choices, and blocks opportunity for people who want to work. Michelle Freenor, a tour guide in Savannah, Georgia, gets good reviews from customers….
Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: “On Power.” How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages? In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people lust for power. Early on, Levin quotes C.S….
Every recreational golfer of my generation shares at least two things in common: We grew up revering Tiger Woods, and we know “Happy Gilmore,” the 1996 Adam Sandler golf comedy, like the back of our hands. Which millennial, while lining up a putt on the green, hasn’t told himself at some point to just “tap…
A few weeks ago, press outlets globally ran a horrific story about Israel shooting at starving Palestinians trying to get food. The story was not true. Before the press began retracting it, a man in Colorado attacked several Jews, killing, among others, a Holocaust survivor. Earlier this week, the New York Times, on its front…
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this week that their countries would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The first problem with that is “Palestine” is a fictional place. There never was any such thing. And diplomatic recognition of it no more changes this reality than if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Some countries have true, serious problems. Then there are countries that have national discussions over a buxom young white woman in a jeans commercial. Obviously, America is the latter. This week, the internet—and the media more generally—exploded over a commercial starring actress Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle. The spot features Sweeney, lying seductively on the…
Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all. Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman and a man. Others continued to…
When President Donald Trump interrupted his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to play a video evidencing widespread persecution against white South Africans in May, the left-wing media called it an “ambush.” Which only leaves one to wonder what the media would call what happened to the Heunis family the night of…
There has been a significant shift in the fight to protect the unborn since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022 with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Now, the March for Life is holding state-based marches across the country and continues to work to shift the…
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. I’d like to talk about the economy here at the beginning of August. We’ve just finished July. We have some of the July reports, but mostly,…
A recent MIT study made for splashy headlines: “Using AI makes you stupid, research finds.” Though researchers cautioned against using words like “dumb” or “stupid” in their findings, the study appeared to show that the more a person relied on AI, the less neural connectivity that person experienced. The jury is still out on whether…