Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience sees Betsy DeVos as a stronger champion of improved public education than her predecessors in the Obama administration, judging by reaction to our recent interviews. We begin with that topic. Don’t forget to email us: [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thanks for Rob Bluey’s interview with Education Secretary Betsy […]
The New York Times just can’t stop talking about communism. Recently the Times ran an editorial headlined “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!” The piece, written by Jason Barker, a professor in South Korea, is about what one would expect from a defense of communism. As one Federalist writer noted, it was “beyond parody.” […]
The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week—many of which went misreported by the mainstream media and some weren’t reported at all. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a withering response to CNN’s April Ryan during a heated press conference earlier this week. After […]
President Donald Trump spoke Friday to the nation’s largest gun rights advocacy group, but touched on numerous other issues apart from the Second Amendment and school safety. “If we’re going to outlaw guns like so many people want to do … we are going to have to outlaw immediately all vans and all trucks,” @POTUS […]
These days, a number of people seem to be under the impression that investigating President Donald Trump is the most vital project undertaken by this nation since its founding. Perhaps. But their feelings shouldn’t override the Constitution, because for all the principles allegedly being whittled away by this administration, its antagonists seem to be doing […]
Rudy Giuliani sent opponents of President Donald Trump into a wild flutter in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is now part of the president’s legal team, said that one of Trump’s personal lawyers, Michael Cohen, had been reimbursed for the settlement he entered […]
It seems the Boy Scouts of America would prefer not to exist. On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts announced that their signature program known simply as the “Boy Scouts”—which serves ages 10 to 17—will no longer bear the word “boy.” Beginning in February, it will be known as Scouts BSA. This change comes only months after […]
A California venture capitalist has gathered enough signatures to put before voters this fall the idea of breaking his state into three. Skeptics say the proposal will fare no better than previous efforts to do the same, yet the state is already politically fractured—and nowhere are the fissures more evident than on the state’s college […]
The Trump administration announced late Monday evening that, until June 1, it would continue to exempt Canada, Mexico, and the European Union from tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. On June 1, the tariffs are set to go into full effect for any country without a special agreement with the U.S. Extending the exclusion […]
Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added: PSA: either you are against these pieces of s— and their genocidal […]
