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Does having a right as an adult mean you don’t need to prove anything, such as age, to exercise or obtain that right? That’s certainly not the case when it comes to applying for a credit card, registering to vote, renting a car, purchasing tobacco, or entering a nightclub, but since the dawn of web…
Last week, President Donald Trump announced an executive order protecting college sports. This is an important step to end the pernicious assault on the industry by labor agitators and plaintiff attorneys. But to truly save the industry, Trump should work with Congress to pass critical legislation to save college sports. The good news is that Rep….
Superman is an alien conservatives should protect. I’m talking IP and icons here, so if James Gunn’s newest installment of the Superman franchise deserved critique, conservatives should not be shy. But because the Man of Steel properly understood soars higher than anything as a symbol for what America means, conservatives should use this moment to…
On my way back from Mass recently, I walked past Alex Padilla, the uber left-wing California senator, coming out of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. The incident was just the latest reminder for me that the Catholic Church is increasingly functioning as the new mainline church in American politics where left, right, and center gather…
The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we are told, there is one enormous hope for the…
A lawyer who worked closely with Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder now works in President Donald Trump’s administration as an ostensibly nonpolitical staffer at the Justice Department. While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in purportedly nonpolitical, career positions….
The Donald Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America’s broken education system. One, an executive order by President Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president…
Brevity is the soul of wit, as Polonius said in Shakespeare’s classic drama “Hamlet.” And while we would never, ever, compare any legislation to the Bard’s creations, we commend Sen. Ted Cruz, R.-Texas, for his pithy five-word amendment to the RICO statute introduced in the Senate. By including rioting as an activity that falls under RICO, Cruz’s amendment would…
The seven days of mourning over the death of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show has ended. The rendered garments have been replaced. The flag no longer flies at half-staff. I now feel at liberty to speak without sounding ghoulish. “Good riddance!” I say. First, a bit of background. For years, I was a nationally-syndicated topical humor…
The devastating loss of Grand Canyon Lodge isn’t a reason to put new restrictions on good fire. The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is a marvel. A few summers ago, a friend and I took our sons there and drank in the remarkable views. Personally, I found it more breathtaking than the heavily…
The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act signals a major shift in federal energy policy. Among its provisions, the law accelerates the phase-out of tax credits for new wind and solar projects and eliminates long-term subsidies for renewable developers on public land. The law revives a principle that should guide all energy policy: Let the best…
Over the course of four years’ banishment to America’s political wilderness while subjected to both a would-be assassin’s bullets and the humiliating and unprecedented spectacle of criminal prosecution by his political opponents, Donald Trump seems to have intuited a key life lesson: Time is of the essence. Carpe diem, seize the day. And so it…
The liberal Poynter Institute is very upset at President Donald Trump for suggesting former President Barack Obama was guilty of “treason” for organizing the campaign to paint Trump as a tool of the Russians. How must the media deal with this? Tom Jones and Rick Edmonds lamented “Trump’s wild rants cannot be dismissed or ignored…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard contends that new declassified documents show that former President Barack Obama engaged in the plot to create the lie that President Donald Trump had conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election. Of course he did. We have known for years that in July 2016, CIA Director John…
Real accountability is coming to higher education thanks to President Donald Trump. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that Columbia University agreed to pay $21 million to settle antisemitism charges following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks. “Under the guise of promoting free speech, many universities have actually become a haven for antisemitic conduct, often…
We’re witnessing what happens when the mask slips and untouchable elites are exposed. From the bombshell declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showing that President Barack Obama’s intel community had no evidence of Trump-Russian collusion in the 2016 election, to the kiss-cam seen ‘round the world catching Astronomer CEO and his…
I know, I know. We have been in the midst of a blizzard of important domestic and world events this summer, from the final week of the Supreme Court’s term with a slew of important decisions to the fight over the “Big, Beautiful Bill” to the war in the Middle East and the Russian/Ukrainian conflict….
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 a little bit about the strange, bizarre, endless, run-on, crazy interview…
Means-tested welfare is the third-largest segment of federal spending, only outranked by Social Security and Medicare. The U.S. welfare system has been growing for decades, with little to show when it comes to helping lower-income Americans achieve upward mobility. In the recent One Big Beautiful Bill Act, however, Congress made some promising reforms to one…
The Internal Revenue Service says it will relax its long-standing ban on churches engaging in political campaign activity. Churches, of course, must decide whether to do so, but this overdue decision respects their First Amendment rights. Under the Internal Revenue Code, churches—like other organizations that serve charitable, religious, educational, scientific, and similar purposes—are eligible for…