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President Donald Trump’s election victory was a wake-up call for many reasons. From the madness at the southern border to out-of-control inflation, Americans made it abundantly clear they were ready for a stop to the country’s downward spiral. Now the president is planning to do the same to the banking industry, restoring sanity to…
“Uh oh—have you guys completed your income tax? Things kind of happened real fast down there, and I need an extension.”—Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert Even in space, Americans worry about taxes. That’s not a screenwriter’s joke. Hours before Apollo 13 almost ended in disaster, astronaut Jack Swigert, called in as a last-minute replacement, wasn’t…
The new “Superman” movie isn’t an attack on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but it shows how alienated from America many liberals in Hollywood and politics now feel. Every kid used to know Superman fights for “truth, justice, and the American way.” That slogan has been around since the “Superman” radio show of the early…
So, here we are again. A large public university in Virginia is, if you believe the headlines, rallying to defend itself against the Trump administration’s “ongoing assault on academia.” This seems like a replay of the University of Virginia trying to hide its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the Department of Education a couple…
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 want to talk about a big controversy. And that is Immigration and Customs Enforcement was…
Are America’s taxpayers finally getting off California’s bullet train to nowhere? The Trump administration announced Wednesday afternoon that it will terminate $4 billion in unspent funds that were going to be spent on the California High-Speed Rail project. Here’s what President Donald Trump had to say on Truth Social. Amen. I couldn’t be happier. The very first…
One day, a young woman named Sarah walked through the doors of the pregnancy center I help run and told me she wanted an abortion. As we talked, it became clear that while Sarah didn’t truly want to end her pregnancy, she believed it was her only option. She had fought hard to escape a…
It was an incredibly hectic and high-stakes 48 hours as House leadership cobbled together the votes to send the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to President Donald Trump’s desk. Few, if any, are better positioned to discuss what happened in those pivotal moments than House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. He joined “The Signal Sitdown” to…
With sky-high interest rates and rising building costs, the American dream of home ownership is slipping further away for millions of Americans. However, an innovative new policy from the Trump administration could bring that dream back to reality for many, especially young people. Last month, Bill Pulte, director of the Trump Federal Housing Finance Agency,…
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum. In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn’t every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly,…
“ICE is trash,” announced the handwritten note, placed atop a pile of garbage, dumped on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s front lawn. Another vulgar note threatened the officer by name. Such personal intimidation of law enforcement officers is part of an escalating trend of violence, as the left-wing agitators that pitched Black Lives Matter riots five…
Widely renowned evangelical theologian John MacArthur has passed away at the age of 86, leaving a lasting impact on the Christian community. MacArthur, who died on Monday, refused to bend the knee to woke ideology and made national headlines in 2020 when he refused to follow California law to close his church during the COVID-19…
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 want to talk about a familiar subject to all of you: Gavin Newsom, the governor…
Just days after the Fourth of July—a holiday meant to honor freedom—we find ourselves defending it. The Our America Foundation and Fair For All have filed a federal civil rights complaint against the University of the District of Columbia, a public historically black college, for denying our request to host a campus debate. The topic?…
It required two tiebreaking votes from Vice President JD Vance, but the $9.4 billion rescissions package moved a step closer to passage in the Senate. With a Friday deadline to deliver the rescissions to President Donald Trump, the Senate advanced the spending cuts Tuesday following procedural votes. Three Republican senators—Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski…
Some of us are old enough to remember B.C. Before Cable, that is. That was long before flat-panel televisions with HDMI inputs, before broadcasters’ digital sub-channels, and even before VCRs and DVRs. It was also way before Bruce Springsteen’s 1992 song “57 Channels (and Nothin’ On).” Before cable TV, there were just three over-the-air broadcast…
This June, Tennessee joined the civil rights organization Students for Fair Admissions to file a lawsuit opposing racial discrimination in higher education. That might give you a sneaking sense of déjà vu—didn’t the Supreme Court crack down on racial preferences two years ago in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard? While the court made it…
For far too long, both parties have allowed waste, fraud, and abuse to fester in nearly every corner of the federal budget while hardworking Americans foot the bill. It’s time to reverse course and pass the rescissions package for the good of the taxpayer. House Republicans have already done our job. We passed a package…
Iranian media unveiled a letter this month written by “100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals” that declared President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “enemies against God.” In this letter, the Muslim scholars warned leaders of Islam that “compromise, normalization of relations, or collaboration” with these countries and their leaders is forbidden. The Iranian Islamic leaders…
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of major layoffs at the Department of Education Monday. It’s a huge win for those who believe the department was a failure and in need of a huge reduction in size. McMahon v. State of New York was a 6-3 decision, with the liberal justices dissenting. The case had been…