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Student Reading Problems Even in America’s Top Universities
We have a national reading problem in the U.S. The widespread lament over the further decline in children’s reading scores underscores the failure of our country’s public schools, but the predicament is not limited to…
Trump Calls for End of FEMA, Shift of Duties and Funding to States
President Donald Trump called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. “FEMA spent tens of millions of dollars in Democrat areas, disobeying orders, but…
How DEI Changed Kentucky Country Day School
“Despite the occupation, despite the apartheid, Palestine will one day be free,” declared Mahmoud Kutmah, the valedictorian of Kentucky Country Day School’s class of 2021, at the end of his graduation speech. What followed…
DOGE’s Musk More Legitimate Than Earlier Presidential Advisers
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 Left Thinks Limiting Power of Bureaucrats Is Authoritarianism
If you listen to the Left’s elite opinion makers, you might think that the Trump administration’s current large-scale attempt to reform and reduce the scope of the vast federal bureaucracy is tantamount to dictatorship.…
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Latest in DOGE Crosshairs
In its latest frontal attack on the federal bureaucracy, the Trump administration is moving to drastically downsize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, created during the Obama administration, has been…
AI That’s Artificial but Not Intelligent
The world is abuzz with the news about DeepSeek, the new open source AI platform that changed the paradigm regarding how much time, money, and processing power is required to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems.…
The Left Unwittingly Proves Trump Right on Anti-Christian Bias
President Donald Trump last week announced a new task force dedicated to eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government. Trump noted that the federal government under President Joe Biden “engaged in an egregious…
Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal research grants from an average of about 60% to 15%. Not surprisingly,…
RFK Jr.’s Hearings Show How Media Prioritize Voice, Appearance
As people tuned in for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent Senate committee confirmation hearings, many heard his voice and immediately tuned out. Yet, listeners’ less-than-stellar auditory experience is not necessarily be a bad…