Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday. The press release said kill switch. The fine print said committee. He told Sacramento to speed up two laws he signed this month, haul in “world-leading experts,” and come back in two months with ideas that might include an emergency shutoff for frontier models, auditors living inside […]
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A mid-September survey of 803 likely Michigan voters asked a question about the presidency, not the Senate, and the living rooms lost their minds anyway. Would you consider a presidential candidate who is an atheist? Forty-six percent said no. Muslim? Forty-five percent. Jewish? Twenty. Christian? Seven. The Senate horse race in the same sample was […]
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The Oversight Project is ramping up its fight against government weaponization. The Washington-based watchdog is launching a firm to defend targets of politicized lawfare and investigate investigators conducting seemingly meritless probes across the executive and legislative branches at the federal and state levels. The firm will also aim at the state bar association level if […]
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Jeanne Shaheen is leaving. That was supposed to be the end of the argument in New Hampshire. A Democrat holds the seat. A Democrat sits in the House seat next door. The state votes blue for Senate even when it votes red for governor. Then the other family showed up, the ratings moved, and a […]
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. 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. We’re about 50 days out from the midterms, and everybody seems to have an October surprise. […]
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Tuesday night the House did not convict anyone. It did not hold a trial. It took a motion to table — Washington-speak for throw this in the trash — and 147 members voted no. Keep it alive. That is the number that matters. Not because Al Green of Texas suddenly discovered a high crime in […]
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Saudi Arabia is a country. It has borders, a flag, a seat at the table, and the world’s most important oil company. It is also a family business that conquered a peninsula, put a holy city on the letterhead, and has spent ninety-four years daring anyone to say the family is the state. This week […]
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a room of science kids in Berlin on Tuesday not to bring him that phrase. He said it in English, like a punchline. “Please, no one come to me with free speech. That has nothing to do with free speech anymore.” What he wants is names on the accounts. What […]
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The American Federation of Government Employees, America’s largest federal government union, has endorsed more than 100 Democrats and a handful of Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, while AFGE also files lawsuits to block President Donald Trump’s federal workforce reforms. AFGE, which represents more than 800,000 federal and D.C. government employees, has endorsed House Minority […]
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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 know we’ve talked a lot about the current Canadian-American trade dispute, but it involves larger issues […]