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“Affordability” is the word going into the 2026 midterm elections—and a GOP win is incumbent on Trump’s ability to communicate the truth on the economy. Victor Davis Hanson says that, despite recent economic wins such as falling inflation rates and tax cuts, the public perception of economic pain persists because Democrats have successfully shifted blame onto President Donald Trump from the real c...

The disastrous way in which public officials handled the Bondi Beach massacre begs the question: Why are authorities hesitant to call out radical Islamist violence when it occurs? From a mass shooting in Australia to canceled Christmas celebrations in Paris, Victor Davis Hanson argues these incidents are not isolated. Instead, they reveal deeper pathologies facing Western societies: open borders w...

On today’s Top News in 10: The Brown University and MIT Shooter suspect is found dead, reported suicide, in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. A follow-up terrorist attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia is thwarted before more were killed. Haitian migrants in Massachusetts join Somali migrants in Minnesota with another major welfare and NGO fraud scandal. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Si...

Tensions between Venezuela and the United States are rising as Trump cracks down on drug trafficking, illicit oil shipments, and hostile foreign influence in Latin America. With talk of confrontation swirling in the media, questions are mounting about how far the U.S. should go—and what lessons history offers. Victor Davis Hanson puts Trump’s standoff with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro into...

On today’s Top News in 10: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Georgia) bill banning transgender procedures for minors passes the House of Representatives. President Trump delivers a short primetime address to the country on his administration’s successes in 2025. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is caught lying about her son's alleged detainment by ICE. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email n...

The criticisms against Sec. of War Pete Hegseth are “entirely political,” and anyone could have said the same things about “the Obama and Biden administration—and much more egregiously.”   Hegseth has turned the U.S. military around in ways no one thought was possible, like getting the military back to meeting all of its recruiting quotas, explains Hanson during today’s episode of “Victor Davis Ha...

On today’s Top News in 10: The investigation into the Brown University shooting continues with growing controversy and incompetence concerns. Our colleague Tyler O’Neil testifies before Congress on the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Trump administration and Congress prepare for a focus on healthcare & affordability in the New Year. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:...

Affordability is the “new theme that Democrats are using against the Trump administration,” and it appears the administration thinks its “foreign policy successes would mitigate any criticism.”   Victor Davis Hanson illustrates the dangers of presidents not heeding the economy’s significance with voters, drawing on one of history’s most notorious examples: former President George H.W. Bush, during...

On today’s Top News in 10: President Trump sues the British Broadcasting Corporation for $10 Billion. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sets her feud with the Republican Party aside to get one last bill passed before she resigns. The FBI thwarts a potential terrorist attack, arresting four members of a Marxist and Pro-Palestinian organization in California. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our...

The recently unveiled U.S. National Security Strategy has ruffled liberal and even some conservative feathers both here and abroad, for two reasons:  No. 1, the Trump administration told Europe an inconvenient truth: The birthplace of Western civilization is facing “civilization erasure.” And No. 2, critics feel that the strategy is not critical enough of Russia and China. They’re wrong. An entire...

On today’s Top News in 10: Two U.S. soldiers and one civilian interpreter killed and three wounded in Syria by an ISIS gunman. Two dead and nine injured in a mass shooting at Brown University’s engineering building. A mass shooting and Islamist terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia kills at least 16 and injures over 40 at a Hanukkah Event. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsle...

The recently unveiled U.S. National Security Strategy has liberal heads turning over this one priority: "Promoting European Greatness." Europe’s problems cannot just be attributed to “insufficient military spending and economic stagnation.”  The continent is facing “civilizational erasure” should it continue to embrace practices and transnational bodies that “undermine political liberty and sovere...

Losses, and What Comes Next So, we’ve spoken to party leaders on both sides of the issue of the election results in Virginia last month. Today we speak to one of the candidates who lived it. We sit down with former Ronald Reagan and George Allen aide John Reid as he looks to the future but also shares his insights into what the 2025 statewide race was like. Keep Up With The Daily Signal   Sign up...

On today’s Top News in 10: The Trump-favored redistricting measure is now dead in Indiana despite Republicans’ supermajority. Another Black Lives Matter leader caught and federally indicted for stealing millions. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brought before a house committee that quickly turned into a hoax-ridden circus. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠...

On today’s Top News in 10: The United States seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Cuba in the Southern Caribbean. House Democrats introduce articles of impeachment for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After financially propping up Obamacare for a little while longer appears to be impossible, Republicans finally propose alternatives. Keep Up With The Dail...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the law doesn't allow the Trump administration to eliminate H-1B visas. An H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. When asked by The Daily Signal if eliminating the program—a proposal popular with the MAGA base—is a possibility, Chavez-DeRemer said "I don't thin...

There’s a big discussion taking place in this country about immigration, and “one of the themes has been whether a person came legally or illegally,” and what their attitude toward the country they came to is. A U.S. federal attorney recently uncovered fraud occurring in Minnesota where fraudsters in the Somali community there stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers over a period of year...

On today’s Top News in 10, Daily Signal President Rob Bluey drops in to discuss the consistent nomination and confirmation issues still plaguing the Trump administration almost a year into his second term. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.dailysignal.com/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In an era of World War II revisionism, it’s worth remembering what really led to Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941.  Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the real context behind the attack, why Japan miscalculated so badly, the myths that still distort this history, and how Pearl Harbor became the beginning of Japan’s greatest strategic blunder on today’s episode of “...

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Indiana’s 9-0 Republican redistricting map passes the Senate committee and heads to have its future decided in the Indiana State Senate itself. The Supreme Court argues over the President’s Constitutional right to fire federal employees at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond, "Humphrey's Executor." Tensions rise between the United States and Venezuela amid...

In a recent strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, the vessel “was not completely obliterated,” requiring the U.S. military to “finish the job” with a second hit. The Left instantly seized this as an opportunity to call it “an execution of prisoners,” saying that President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth—“or perhaps Pete Hegseth on his own had ordered”—to “kill them all.” Hanson brea...

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: A story of two Tims: as Tim Walz complains for constituents to stop driving by name calling his home falls on deaf ears. Tim Pool has his home attacked in a drive by shooting. ICE Begins deportation raids in Minnesota as Hennepin county continues to fester with corruption. Finally, from capitol hill to Cinnabon, campaigns begin to label Somalis as victims in wh...

We’ve all heard the Democrat talking points ad nauseam—from the Epstein files to Obamacare, from Trump’s health and MRI to inflation, affordability, and Biden-era policies.  But what’s the strategy behind focusing so heavily on their GOP opponents instead of the bigger picture? Victor Davis Hanson says it’s “just an excuse for the lack of a serious agenda”—and Democrat voters don’t seem to mind. H...

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Trump obliterates the Biden administration fuel economy standards. Sen. Mark Kelly (D - Ariz.) may have illegally leaked details of a classified Inspector General report to the Wall Street Journal. Minneapolis triples down on protecting Somalian migrants from deportation. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Ukraine is back in the headlines as President Donald Trump puts forth new peace proposals to the international community. To make sense of where the conflict currently sits and what ending the war would entail, Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the core questions behind the conflict: Why did Putin invade? Why does Russia keep fighting? Why won’t NATO fully support Ukraine? And what will it take to e...