By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | August 12, 2025 President Donald Trump’s Department of Veterans Affairs processed more disability benefits compensation and pension ratings claims in a single year than ever before, The Daily Signal has learned. “Under President Trump, VA is making major improvements to better serve
President Donald Trump described his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as "setting the table" for a potential trilateral summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump warned of "very severe consequences" if Putin does not agree to a ceasefire during their meeting. "
By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal | August 12, 2025 Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. The Democrats have a new narrative, the Left in general does, that they are saving democracy from President Donald Trump. And that justifies “almost any means” necessary to achieve the
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | August 12, 2025 Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has sharpened his campaign’s rhetoric with a video containing brutal accusations against his chief opponent, Andrew Cuomo—even implying that the former New York governor is connected to the now-deceased convicted sex
By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal | August 12, 2025 When students return to Christiansburg High School for classes on Wednesday, they’ll find at least one large “open plan” gender-neutral and multiple-stall bathroom. Parents are raising the alarm. “I would have been mortified at that age,” Alecia Vaught,
President Donald Trump announced he will host the Kennedy Center Honors this year, following the urging of his chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Among the honorees is actor Sylvester Stallone, best known for his roles in the "Rocky" and "Rambo" films. BREAKING: Trump announces Sylvester Stallone,
By Rebecca Downs, The Daily Signal | August 12, 2025 After weeks of speculation, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is reportedly entering the race to run next year against Republican Sen. Jon Husted, who was appointed earlier this year to replace now Vice President JD Vance. Crystal Ball’s Larry Sabato
A federal appeals court has ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration is not obligated to continue foreign aid payments. The decision lifts a lower court's injunction that had required the State Department to release billions in Congressionally approved funding to foreign contractors. The Trump administration can cut potentially
The Trump administration’s latest U.S. State Department human rights report claims conditions in the United Kingdom worsened over the past year, citing growing restrictions on free speech and rising antisemitic threats. The report highlights government actions after the 2024 Southport murders, where anti-immigration riots erupted. Officials intervened to
By Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation | August 12, 2025 Border czar Tom Homan criticized the media on Monday for downplaying crime in Washington, D.C., by reporting it has plunged. While legacy media outlets have reported that crime decreased by 35% in 2024, their figures rely on local police
By Wanjiru Njoya, Mises Wire | August 12, 2025 The literal meaning of coercion is of little philosophical use, as it could mean anything that anyone feels under pressure to do against his will. The word “force” is often used conversationally in that broad sense—“they ran out of the style
By Derek VanBuskirk, Daily Caller News Foundation | August 12, 2025 Former NYPD officer Katrina Brownlee slammed former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in a newly released memoir, “And Then Came the Blues,” according to a Tuesday report. Brownlee also wrote about her backstory, including allegations that her ex-fiancé shot
By Murray N. Rothbard, Mises Wire | August 11, 2025 A very common criticism of the libertarian position runs as follows: Of course we do not like violence, and libertarians perform a useful service in stressing its dangers. But you are very simpliste because you ignore the other significant forms of
By Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire | August 12, 2025 From its very beginnings in the seventeenth century, the classical liberals (also known as “libertarians,” or, historically, “liberals”) have been primarily focused on limiting the powers of the state. It has been state powers—not the powers of church or family or
By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | August 12, 2025 “Hell is truth seen too late.”—Thomas Hobbes “Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”—Étienne de La Boétie In politics, corruption begins with the corrupted. We see turpitude throughout society’s power structure, but it’s
By Ron Paul, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | August 11, 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics head Dr. Erika McEntarfer is one of the latest persons President Trump has told “you’re fired.” President Trump said this month that he fired Dr. McEntarfer because the president believed she manipulated
