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. Last week, President Donald Trump completed his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. They both gave, […]
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Democrat Party hopes for retaking the Senate in next year’s midterms may come down to former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, taking one of the Ohio Senate seats, but the momentum remains with his Republican opponent, Sen. Jon Husted. Earlier this week, Brown made it official that he was seeking a comeback bid after losing last year to […]
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Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., already facing two Justice Department investigations, could soon face another on Capitol Hill, legal experts say. A whistleblower has alleged that Schiff—while he was the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence—orchestrated the leaking of classified information to promote the conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to […]
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The constitutionally dubious practice of states using race as a variable to redraw congressional districts, which largely shifts power to Democrats in the House of Representatives, is being called into question before the Supreme Court in a Louisiana case that could set a strong precedent for the rest of the country. After hearing 80 minutes of […]
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Politically speaking, history is a pendulum that swings back and forth between the right and the left. Democracy has a habit of destroying itself through an excess of democracy, while the left destroys itself through an excess of authoritarianism. It’s difficult to understand how anyone can ever shift away from democracy toward authoritarian rule, given […]
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Listen up, patriots, because if there’s one thing more terrifying than a Biden rerun, it’s the slick-haired snake oil salesman from San Francisco eyeing the presidency like it’s his next taxpayer-funded vacation. Gavin Newsom, California’s golden boy governor since January 7, 2019, has been drooling over the Oval Office for years, positioning himself as the […]
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The FBI raided John Bolton’s home Friday morning reportedly in search of classified documents. Bolton served as national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Agents arrived at Bolton’s Maryland home around 7 a.m. Bolton is not currently under arrest or in custody. About the same time the agents began searching Bolton’s […]
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ASHBURN, Va.—The father of a high school boy punished by the school district for expressing shock at seeing a girl in the boys’ locker room says he would take his son’s case to the Supreme Court, if necessary, as his lawyer says the case illustrates “blatant religious discrimination.” “Are you in this for the long […]
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A flurry of optimistic diplomatic activity has followed President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s historic, apparently successful summit in Anchorage, Alaska on Aug. 15 as a peace process has officially begun between the heads of state of Russia and Ukraine, with Volodymyr Zelensky agreeing to meet with Putin after Trump convened an Oval Office meeting […]
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Breaking: New York Appeals Court Tosses Trump’s $500M+ Civil Fraud Penalty In a stunning victory for President Donald Trump, a New York appeals court on August 21, 2025, threw out the massive $527 million civil fraud penalty imposed against him, deeming it “excessive.” The ruling, delivered by the Appellate Division in Manhattan, marks a major […]