He Lost the Primary. So He Held a Press Conference About Estrogen.

Al Green is leaving. Redistricting ate his old seat. He jumped into another Houston district, lost the runoff in May, 69 percent to 31, and his term dies on January 3. That is the part that is not optional. The rest is a Thursday press conference in Houston, a letter dated September 4, and a […]

They Built a Midterm Convention Because the Midterm Wouldn’t Build Itself.

Dallas was not a nominating convention. Nobody left with a running mate. They left with a two-day reminder that the man whose name is not on the ballot still thinks he is the ballot. First midterm convention in party history. American Airlines Center. September 9 and 10. The president wanted a show. The party changed […]

Five Grand If You Keep the Building. The Fine Print Is the Building.

Wednesday night in Dallas he made it simple. If Republicans keep the House and the Senate on November 3, every adult citizen gets $5,000. He called it the Trump dividend. Spend it here. Not in Canada. Not in China. Not in Germany. A company cutting a check to the shareholders, he said. Like the $1,776 […]

Canadians Feel Real Pain in Stage Four of Trade War

I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat. 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. Earlier, I had staged it. I said […]

He Needed the Sentence. The Record Did Not Need the Sentence.

Six days after nineteen men turned airliners into weapons, the president stood at a mosque in Washington and said the line that became policy. “Islam is peace.” The face of terror, he said, was not the true faith. Violence against innocents violated the fundamentals. A billion people found comfort in it. American Muslims were doctors […]

They Lost the Voters. So Now They Want the Court.

Germany did not hold a national election last Sunday. It held a state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a poor eastern Land of two million people. Alternative for Germany took 43.8 percent. The chancellor’s own conservatives took 17.2 percent. AfD won 39 of 83 seats — three short of a solo majority — and immediately started hunting […]

Bessent Warns of ‘Socialist Hellscape’ If Democrats Take Power

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted President Donald Trump’s economic record Wednesday night at the Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention while issuing a stark warning about what he says Democrats would do if given control of Congress. Looking to the future, Bessent said that in order to honor the first 250 years of the United States, Americans must “meet the […]

Civilization Versus Suicidal Empathy

Civilization is not the natural state of man. It is a fragile achievement, painstakingly constructed over thousands of years through laws, customs, certitudes, and discipline. Barbarism, by contrast, requires no effort. All a society has to do to achieve barbarism is abandon its laws and generally accepted code of conduct. Which brings me to 2026 […]

25 Years After 9/11—Has America Forgotten?

Sami Winc:  It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and I know that we’ve been watching New York and [New York Mayor] Mamdani, and there are a lot of people who are not happy Mamdani might come to ceremonies commemorating those who died on 9/11. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition […]