Paul Ehrlich spent the 1970s warning that 3.5 billion people would soon trigger mass famine, disease, and collapse. World population has more than doubled past 8 billion. Living standards rose. Calories increased. Extreme poverty plummeted. The catastrophe never arrived. What arrived instead is sustained fertility collapse across most of the developed world and much of […]
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Far-left streamer Hasan Piker defended his viral performance of the song “We Are Charlie Kirk” Sunday, insisting he was not mocking Kirk’s assassination and claiming he had more “respect” for Kirk than his widow does. Piker attacked what he called “an entire sea of Kirk profiteers,” including Kirk’s widow, Erika. Referring to the outrage over his singing the […]
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Sami Winc: So, Victor, I’m anxious to hear about our John Tyler, but also Richard Nixon, who is probably the more infamous of the two, although I’m not sure he should be. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis […]
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The FBI’s final 2025 numbers are in. Violent crime fell an estimated 9.3 percent from 2024. The violent crime rate dropped 9.7 percent. That is the largest single-year decline in the national rate since the FBI began producing national estimates in 1936. Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter plunged 18.1 percent. The murder rate hit 4.1 per […]
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Angie Nixon is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida. She joined the Democratic Socialists of America during the campaign. She has spent the days since her primary win trying to soften the label, calling herself a capitalist or social democrat who merely agrees with many of their goals. Her own platform and public […]
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A Department of Energy letter obtained by a U.S. senator confirms it. Bill Gates held a Q clearance from June 11, 2014, until December 6, 2021. That is more than seven years of eligibility for some of the most sensitive nuclear-related information the United States possesses. He is a private citizen. He has never held […]
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2624 on Saturday. Republicans call it the Stop Nick Shirley Act. The law expands the state’s existing Safe at Home address-confidentiality program to cover employees and volunteers who work for nonprofits providing immigration support services. Those workers can now get substitute mailing addresses that government agencies must accept. It […]
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a new round of sweeping restrictions on artificial intelligence data centers on Tuesday, marking a swift reversal of his original views on the issue. “Many politicians and political candidates, noticing growing public opposition to data centers (at least some of it resulting from dark money campaigns against these central features of the American economy), […]
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The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel dropped an opinion on Friday that cuts to the core of who runs American foreign policy. The Foreign Service Grievance Board’s power to overrule the Secretary of State on discipline and terminations is unconstitutional. Final authority must rest with an officer accountable to the President. That means the […]
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The Defense Department fired the publisher, the editor-in-chief, and a reporter at Stars and Stripes on Friday. The official reason was insubordination. The real reason is that the paper’s leadership decided it answered to the press club instead of the troops and the chain of command that funds it. Max Lederer, the longtime publisher, Erik […]