Category: Politics

After mounting pressure from the Trump administration and the Department of Justice, James Ryan resigned from his post as president of the University of Virginia Friday, according to The New York Times.  The Justice Department launched an investigation earlier this year after receiving complaints from conservative law firm America First Legal that the university’s administration…

The state of California must remove from federally funded sexual education curricula all gender ideology references that “indoctrinate” students, according to a notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week.  The order intends to reform California’s “egregious” academic resources that teach “gender identity is distinct from biological sex and that boys…

President Donald Trump said Friday he has “dropped all work on sanction relief” for Iran, slamming Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei for condemning the United States and falsely claiming victory over Israel in an “angry, hostile, and unhappy” public address. “During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and…

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. The Democrats, under kind of a volatile and unhinged Rep. Al Green, introduced articles of impeachment…

Some Republican officials are sounding the alarm about a provision tucked into the Senate budget reconciliation bill that would potentially eviscerate state regulation of artificial intelligence. The provision would prohibit states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence technologies for 10 years after the bill is enacted. It defines AI as “artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems,…

New York Times opinion columnist Masha Gessen suggested that the terror attacks targeting two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C., and a group of Jews marching in support of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colo., weren’t anti-Semitic but rather “political.” Gessen argued in a Wednesday column that “violence that looks antisemitic may—even when it very effectively serves…

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in Washington, D.C., this week about the One Big Beautiful Bill, as the Senate goes through the “Byrd Bath” to scrub the reconciliation bill for compliance with the rules. But what is the Byrd Rule, what’s a “Byrd Bath,” and why does all this jargon matter for Americans hoping…

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday regarding a Texas law that makes it more difficult for children to access pornography.  The ruling in the case of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could have a larger reach beyond the Lone Star State. Texas joined 19 other states to require pornographic websites to verify their users are…

Conservatives in politics and culture are wise to make fatherlessness a focal point of their family policy priorities. Children who grow up with both parents are more likely to attend college and less likely to go to prison. Conversely, father absence is linked to poverty, teen pregnancy, youth crime, worse academic outcomes, and substance abuse….

Can public libraries get rid of children’s books featuring sex, masturbation, and gender ideology? That question sparked a lawsuit between Llano County, Texas, and a handful of adult library patrons who claimed that when the Llano library removed explicit books, it violated their right to free speech. The patrons sued on First Amendment grounds, arguing…

The House Oversight Committee has expanded the scope of its probe into President Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline to what White House spokespersons knew while they were on TV defending his fitness for office. While working as the chief spokesperson for the then-president, Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed concerns about her boss’ health, asserting, “Oh, my gosh, he’s…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made good Friday on his promise to fight wokeness in the U.S. military—including retroactively, when it comes to left-wing activism that dates back to Barack Obama’s presidency. In a recorded speech on Friday, Hegseth announced that the USNS Harvey Milk would henceforth be known as the USNS Oscar V. Peterson,…

The death of longtime U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., has triggered a high-stakes political scramble in Northern Virginia, as both parties prepare to nominate candidates Saturday ahead of a rare special election Sept. 9. Virginia Republicans and Democrats will hold “firehouse primaries”—primary elections run by the political parties instead of the state—to determine their candidates. …

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Boston University professor is “spreading disinformation” about the results of funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast.   “I am deeply concerned that Boston University is serving as a platform for the weaponization of academia, where federally funded professors…

In one of its final decisions this term, the Supreme Court has affirmed the right of religious parents to follow their faith in making decisions about their children’s public school education. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the court sided with parents who asked that they be notified and given the chance to opt their children out…

President Donald Trump is looking forward to proceeding with his agenda after the Supreme Court on Friday granted the administration’s request to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions by federal judges. “We can now promptly file, proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide,” Trump said at a press briefing Friday….

A group of millennial entrepreneurs from across the country tried to draw attention to the debt-increasing aspects of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” currently making its way through Congress by giving away free pork sandwiches on Thursday. The slogan for the event was: “Tell Congress to lead—and leave the pork to us.” William Glass, policy…