We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
The vast majority of voters don’t want President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump to be the next president. A lot of those voters simply are not going to vote. This is going to be an election determined not by who swing voters may or may not choose but by who can best motivate […]
Shortly before the verdict of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case was announced on Thursday, a memo circulated by the Trump campaign suggested that Trump’s trial would only have a minimal impact on who voters support in November. “According to the appended memo based on our internal surveys conducted by Tony Fabrizio, well over […]
Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans can do nothing right. Former President Donald Trump‘s nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the high court set off a frenzy amid the legacy media. Democrats subjected Kavanaugh to unsubstantiated eleventh-hour rape claims and character assassinations during his hearing. The media lambasted Barrett, whose […]
A minimum wage hike for healthcare workers in California was supposed to take effect this Saturday. But over the past week, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and his Democratic allies have worked feverishly on legislation to postpone it. California Democrats haven’t suddenly become free-market acolytes. They’re worried that the wage increase, which may cost the state […]
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was denounced this week for being, among other things, a “genocidal racist,” a “Nazi,” a “vicious thuggette,” a “ghoul,” a “fascist,” and a “lunatic,” of being “criminally insane” and in hell. Readers will not be surprised to hear that these unhinged accusations came from people who support the genocidal […]
Healthcare spending is eating up an increasingly large portion of the federal budget, to the point that over the next 30 years, per the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, healthcare outlays will consume $1 out of every $10 of our annual total economic output. Thankfully, private-sector scientific innovation may help tamp down the healthcare red ink, […]
The risk of writing a book about an ongoing medical scandal is that it might be outdated before anyone has had a chance to read it. A smart approach, then, is to humanize the scandal by telling the stories of the real-life victims, which is what the Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan wisely chose […]
Former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Indianola, Iowa, in January when he called out to someone in the crowd. “Another man who’s a friend of mine,” Trump said. “I’m not going to mess around with — he’s [mayor of] Knox County, Tennessee.” “Do you know Glenn Jacobs?” Trump asked the […]
That the arc of history bends toward justice is questionable at best. Just ask the East Europeans trapped behind the Iron Curtain in 1945, who had to live in communist tyranny for decades. But something good is happening in the protracted culture war with universities. Harvard, for one, just flew a white flag. By announcing […]
There are times when we collectively understand that discrimination in hiring and admissions is wrong. Last week, for example, a Virginia-based technology firm was forced to pay more than $38,000 in penalties for a 2023 job advertisement in search of white applicants. In a U.S. Department of Justice press release, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke […]
Tammy and her wife, Kathy, are white. The Florida residents became foster parents to Tiffany, who is black, when she was born and continued to care for her until the age of 3. That’s when they applied to adopt her. Tiffany’s aunt expressed no interest in caring for her despite living close by and having […]
Protectionists have a magic word, a word of talismanic power. The word is “China.” So potent is its spell that it shuts down any argument for free trade, however tangential the connection to the dreadful regime in Beijing (about which, for the avoidance of doubt, I am more hawkish than most). China makes politicians lose […]
After a 2023-2024 school year that can only be described as an “annus horribilis,” Harvard has taken a major step in shoring up its institutional reputation with an announcement that it will no longer weigh in on issues outside the university. In a recent letter to the Harvard University community, interim President Alan Garber and […]
For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, might be played for many more years in tourist trap clubs. But the real thing, the small-group ensembles with syncopated […]
