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American Eagle released a statement Friday afternoon regarding their controversial ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. The shocker? The company is refusing to apologize. The Left lost it over the ad campaign, calling it “Nazi propaganda” because she’s white, blonde, and the ad makes a pun about having “good genes” … and good jeans. This kind…
When the United Kingdom’s new foreign secretary, David Lammy, stood in Rabat this past June and endorsed Morocco’s Western Sahara autonomy plan, he sealed an unprecedented United Nations Security Council alignment: After half a century, the United States, France, and the U.K. are pressing toward the same political end state. Western Sahara, a former Spanish…
This week, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin began the process of negating the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that was, as President Barack Obama called it, the “holy grail of climate change regulation.” The endangerment finding allowed the EPA to regulate the very byproduct of human existence, carbon dioxide, as a pollutant. With that finding,…
Thanks to the radical abortion industry, the pro-life movement consistently faces a seemingly unending slew of challenges—but nonetheless, it’s made hard-won progress this year. Today, one of the greatest challenges the movement faces is the growing prevalence of the abortion pill. This crisis ends the lives of thousands of innocent unborn children each year and…
WASHINGTON—I have a pet peeve about news coverage of mass murder. When the story breaks, cable news anchors report, as they first did after Monday’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, that the killer’s motives were unknown. What do mass shooters‘ motives matter? When killers leave notes to explain their brutality, they leave self-aggrandizing excuses for snuffing…
Timing of America’s 250th anniversary next year, 2026, couldn’t be better. It will serve as a great encounter, for too many Americans for the first time, with the founding principles of our nation. Too many have lost touch with the principles that created the miracle called the USA, and unfortunately, increasing numbers are hostile toward…
In Monday’s devastating Manhattan shooting that claimed NYPD Officer Didarul Islam’s life, we witnessed two profoundly different responses that define the choice facing New York voters: courageous optimism versus political cowardice. Officer Islam embodied courageous optimism—the conscious choice to serve others despite mortal danger, maintaining unwavering principles regardless of personal cost. When he confronted 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. After the defeat of Kamala Harris in November 2024, the Democrats recently decided to run an autopsy, a discovery, so to speak, of why they lost…
In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of Education spent three times as much as the Department of Homeland Security and six times as much as the Department of Justice. The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Treasury…
Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”? Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at the Glass House pot farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo by Homeland Security to the dismay of local politicians and…
In all the hoopla about the One Big Beautiful Bill, one provision went completely overlooked—but that provision is now primed to usher in the rebirth of the great American car. But first, a little history. Back in 1975, in a panic over the Arab oil embargo and phony predictions that the world was running out…
President Donald Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration and reversed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but at least one of Biden’s political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security has kept his prominent DHS job under Trump. Jeff Rezmovic, who currently serves as deputy assistant commissioner at the Board of Trade in Customs and…
A woman votes in two different states for four elections in a row. A small-town mayor locks away ballots and refuses to count the votes. A mayoral candidate forges over 100 absentee ballot requests and sends them to a fake nursing home address. A husband and wife, both candidates for office, fake their residence in…
It’s Andrew Breitbart’s world, we’re all just living in it. Tragically, Breitbart himself is not. He died suddenly on March 1, 2012, at just 43 years of age. In his life, Breitbart was always a pioneer, pushing media and politics to the edges of the map only to open a completely new frontier. There’s something…
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants a $30 minimum wage in New York by 2030, but California’s experience shows this flawed policy will kill at least tens of thousands of jobs. Policymaking doesn’t happen in a vacuum—the laws of economics still hold whether a minimum wage worker is on the East or West…
There’s a reason Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, cut a deal with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon last week. Elite universities like to pose as protectors of free speech, but nobody believes that anymore. For decades, they’ve served as taxpayer-subsidized echo chambers. Then, in March, the Trump administration canceled $400 million in…
Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Glenn Kessler announced on July 28 he’s hanging up his Pinocchios and accepting a generous buyout after 27 years. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss,” he announced. Kessler used a Pinocchio scale for his fact…
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 illegal immigration, but specifically about the new president of Mexico, Claudia…
America’s economic engine is moving south, according to a newly released analysis of IRS and census data by an organization called Unleash Prosperity. “The single most important thing that is going on in this country, economically and demographically, is the massive shift in migration that’s happened over the last 10 to 20 years, and it…
I grew up being told—though I, of course, could never verify it since their corpses were roasted to ashes in the crematoria—that 200 of my relatives were murdered during the Holocaust. You, on the left, who contend President Donald Trump has something to do with Hitler and the Gestapo, likely know approximately what happened to…