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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The risk of writing a book about an ongoing medical scandal is that it might be outdated before anyone has had a chance to read it.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The attorney representing former President Trump is his hush money trial said the presumptive GOP nominee worked closely on his own defense strategy in the case, which ended with a guilty verdict on 34 counts on Thursday. “It was both of us,” Todd Blanche told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who asked who was in charge. “If...