In the spring they wanted her in the room. They wanted the video, the crowd in the rain, the post that told the faithful this was the real thing. By late September the same campaigns were telling her people to stay home. One of them took her name off the website. Another stopped putting her […]
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The foreign minister sat for an American Sunday interview and said his country was ready for a doomsday war. He said it the way a man says he is ready for rain. The same morning he said Tehran still wanted to talk. He wanted the frozen money released. He wanted the oil moving again. He […]
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Last February was the first time in the life of the company that the paychecks did not land when they were supposed to land. Staff in Arlington woke up on a payday Tuesday and found empty accounts. Management called it a technical error between the bank and the payroll vendor. The money showed up later […]
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New York discovered a large share of would-be teachers could not clear a basic literacy exam. The state’s answer was not to fix the colleges that minted them. It was to kill the exam. That was March 2017. Nine years later there is still no standalone academic-literacy gate for a teaching certificate, half the state’s […]
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With a growing number of Americans saying they have a positive view of socialism, it’s a good time not only to explain the efficacy of capitalism (see my September 8 article No, Capitalism Doesn’t “Work”), but individualism as well. Leftists insist that individualism is a selfish philosophy devoid of compassion. But is it? To address […]
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Bernie Sanders looked at a state dinner and saw ten oligarchs. He posted the scoreboard: how much richer each got since Election Day, almost two trillion on paper among them, and announced that artificial intelligence must serve humanity instead of a handful of billionaires. Fine. Here is the same list without the hymn. These are […]
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Sec. Marco Rubio has officially launched a visa fraud reporting portal for Americans to cite instances of abusing native-born citizen workers in favor of foreign labor. The portal can also be used to report student visa fraud, tourist visa fraud and more. This comes shortly after President Trump went after anti-H1B fraud with a recent […]
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Federal law says illegal aliens do not get full Medicaid. California read that sentence as a drafting error. The fix was a state-only bucket inside Medi-Cal, a cash program for people Social Security will not touch, child-only welfare that pays the kid because the parent is the wrong nationality, and a stack of side doors […]
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Two-month extension delays a November deadline, but the core disputes over purchases, rare earths and tariffs remain unresolved Today in Washington, Vice Premier He Lifeng and I held substantive discussions on the U.S.-China economic relationship ahead of President Trump’s meeting with President Xi. Our discussions continued to focus on securing meaningful commitments that protect American […]
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Quickly, on [President] Donald Trump’s speech, I thought some of the more strident things were that he basically was […]