President Donald Trump announced that Bill Pulte will serve as acting director of national intelligence following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard, who is stepping down to care for her husband after his cancer diagnosis. Pulte is currently director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In his roles,...
The following is a modified excerpt from “Higher Education in America: It’s Worse than You Think” (Encounter Books, 2026). On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump called college accreditation a “secret weapon” that he planned to use in his efforts to reform universities. Since then, the mainstream media, including USA Today and Bloomberg, along with...
Tuesday is decision day in California. Voters head to the polls in the state’s top-two “jungle” primary, a system in which every candidate competes on a single ballot and only the top two vote-getters advance to November—regardless of party affiliation. Designed to produce more moderate outcomes, the jungle primary instead often functions as a trap for...
The Department of Justice has chosen to abide by a federal judge’s block on an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created as part of a settlement agreement in President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, in a move that could clear the way for passing a major border security funding bill. The $1.77 billion fund was...
When there’s a real chance of protecting Americans’ privacy, the deep state always runs the same playbook. Slow walk votes on reforms. Allow the clock to run out. Highlight a potential national security scare. And reiterate the status quo while calling it reform. That’s why we must deliver real reforms before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance collapsed in October 2025. The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance fell apart even earlier. By the end of last year, every major U.S. bank had withdrawn from the climate cartel that had spent four years pressuring them to choke off financing to American energy producers. It should have been the end of the story. It...
Chaotic protests turned riots at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have finally been quashed, and Democrat leaders who stoked the crowd want to give themselves big pats on the back for a job well done. Of course, they were the reason the situation spiraled out of control. On Sunday night, police...
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation has poured $2.5 million into a pro-abortion and pro-transgender ballot initiative campaign in Missouri after receiving millions from foreign sources. A watchdog group alleges the donations are in direct violation of the state’s law. Americans for Public Trust filed a complaint with the office of Missouri Attorney General Catherine...
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. This Tuesday, June 2, there are many national, state, and local races throughout the country. Here in California, we’re looking at...
Four blue states are putting federal agents in danger in an effort to hinder immigration enforcement, a Justice Department action contends. On Monday, days after a Justice Department lawsuit, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, ordered state agencies to continue denying undercover license plates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This marks one of the...
The United States Department of Agriculture has launched the Great American Cotton Plan to support cotton farmers and protect Americans from “forever chemicals” in our daily lives. Over the past decade, America has moved to almost all synthetic fibers, often for clothing and linens made of plastics such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene, and polyethylene. While...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said American relations in the Indo-Pacific are stronger than ever after he crossed the ocean to meet with his counterparts in Singapore. Hegseth spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue conference, an Asia security summit, in Singapore, and held bilateral meetings with Indo-Pacific leaders on issues facing the region. The Daily Signal...
It’s only been a few months into Abigail Spanberger’s administration, and already I’m growing weary of this. Here we are again in a scenario too similar to issues that dogged Gov. Glenn Youngkin during the previous four years. On several occasions, as is his right and responsibility as governor, Youngkin appointed people to empty seats...
Just as the deranged Roman emperors—Caligula, Nero, and Commodus—turned the empire’s treasury and laws into weapons against their own people, Gov. Gavin Newsom now seeks to seize 100% of any federal compensation awarded to Californians harmed by government weaponization. Insulated by absolute power, these rulers squandered vast resources on vendettas, bizarre decrees, and self-glorification…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the United States and China agreed in Beijing to keep discussing if the two countries should team to set guardrails on AI. ”You wanna be able to set guardrails,” Hegseth told The Daily Signal Saturday evening. “Given the innovation capabilities of the United States of America, we also wanna...
Although it is generally viewed as a reliably liberal region, the Northeast has Senate and House races in 2026 that could determine the balance of power in Congress in the midterms. Here are four states that could be decisive in November. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is seeking a sixth term in Maine, as the...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin rolled back protections against “forever chemicals” in order to make the safeguards even stronger, he says. PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are linked to cancer, infertility, and more. They can be found in many consumer products and can persist in water and soil for decades. Zeldin announced a rule...
NEWARK, New Jersey, May 31 (Reuters) – Out-of-state agitators have escalated tensions at protests outside a Newark immigrant detention center, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill said on Saturday, as the city imposed an overnight curfew around the embattled Delaney Hall facility. Sherrill, who had ordered state police to take control outside the facility, said five...
A Canadian man went to a Tim Hortons coffee shop with a minor medical problem, spoke to a doctor, and was promptly taken to a medical facility and euthanized under state-sanctioned MAID policies. Sadly, this is the most modern Canada story of all time. A recent report highlights how Canada’s medical assistance in dying program has created...
Where did we come from? What are we made for? These two questions cut to the core of what it means to be a human person. We instinctively desire to know the answers to the deepest questions about our existence. Despite meaningless doomscrolling or gossiping, we ultimately desire to know where we came from and...
Winston Churchill made 16 visits to America in his lifetime. He traveled here as a soldier, a tourist, and a lecturer, but his winter visit to America in 1941 as a wartime leader was perhaps his most important. The story of that trip—and the speech he delivered to a joint session of Congress the day...
Is the federal government still funneling taxpayer dollars to some of the leftist activist groups that called the shots during President Joe Biden’s administration? The Trump White House is asking federal agencies to investigate past and potentially continuing funding for a host of nonprofits, many of which are associated with aggressive promotion of leftist causes....
The fruits of another woke revolution are here—and even California academics are fed up. In May 2020, weeks into the nation’s shutdown and days before George Floyd’s death, the University of California regents voted that applicants to the prestigious public higher education system would no longer need to submit SAT or ACT test scores. “I...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on May 28, 2026, at the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Reenactment at The Heritage Foundation. Britain’s seven year war with France came at a great cost. Its consequences would alter the world. England accumulated a substantial amount of debt throughout the...
The recent Trump-Xi summit in Beijing featured grand ceremonies, red-carpet pomp, and diplomatic flair, but it produced no major breakthroughs. This has allowed some media and analysts to promote distorted narratives about U.S.-China relations, the Iran conflict, and global power dynamics. Here is a clear-eyed debunking of the three most misleading myths. Myth 1: The...
GOP members in Congress are joining TikTok after years of speaking out against the app and are going viral. Following in the footsteps of Democrat lawmakers who have been on the app for years, Republican lawmakers are gaining millions of views and reaching the younger generation of voters. Last year, TikTok, the social media platform...
For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to accommodate them. If the United States applies pressure, the narrative quickly becomes that America is overextended, losing leverage, or somehow empowering its enemies. That narrative has resurfaced during...
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” -Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing” For more than two decades now, a handful of academics, led by John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, have been documenting what has come to...
Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of “The Wealth of Nations.” The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith’s book, published in 1776, is “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.” One might...
As adversaries such as China expand their advanced military capabilities, U.S. leaders are increasingly calling for America to strengthen its own domestically produced defense arsenal. “It’s foolish to rely on a country that hates us for national security, which is why I’ve repeatedly called for a complete decoupling of Chinese-made chips and semiconductors from the...