Jul 31, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where some lawmakers are talking again about a carbon tax. Nick Loris and Laura Williamson show why it’s still a bad, expensive idea for Americans. Jake Dima and Peter Hasson expose a gravy train for white liberals. On the podcast, our foreign correspondent, Nolan Peterson, talks about Russia’s ambitions. Plus: J. David Breemer on a big win for property rights, Kevin Pham on good news in health care, and Josh Shepherd on a “Star Trek” star’s faith-filled breakthrough on the silver screen. On this date in 1964, the unmanned U.S. lunar probe Ranger 7 takes the first close-up images of the moon.
Why the Carbon Tax Would Backfire on America
Marginal bipartisan support for enacting a new tax on American families and businesses doesn’t make it good policy.
$12K a Day: How White Liberals Profit From Pushing ‘White Privilege’
White liberal academics can earn more in a day lecturing about their own “white privilege” than the median black household makes in three months, public records and Census Bureau data show.
When the Supreme Court Is Right to Overturn Precedent
The high court delivers a victory for champions of property rights by overturning a 1985 precedent that had blocked property rights cases from federal courts.
“I'd say they had less intent to actually influence the election than they did to just destabilize our country and to create chaos, and to undermine the faith of Americans in their own country,” Daily Signal foreign correspondent Nolan Peterson says of Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 campaign.
‘The Source of Evil Is the Same’ in These 3 Captive Nations
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua—all under the control of dictatorial communist governments—continue to subject their citizens to unspeakable human rights abuses.
A Sign of Hope for Affordable Health Care
A final rule on health reimbursement arrangements set to take effect in August could expand opportunities for Americans to attain affordable health care, increase access for employees of small businesses, and create new competitive market forces.
How Actress Roxann Dawson Achieved Her Own ‘Breakthrough’ on Faith, Hollywood, and Adoption
“It’s a shame that people of faith have to go undercover in Hollywood,” the director of “Breakthrough” and cast member of “Star Trek: Voyager” says in an interview.
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July 30, 2019
By Alexandra Marotta and James Di Pane
America’s adversaries operate with cyber in the so-called gray zone between diplomacy and war, choosing actions that fall short of sparking a conventional military retaliation.
By Chuck Ross
Russian national Maria Butina’s lawyer, Robert Driscoll, accuses federal prosecutors of withholding exculpatory information about her that the CEO of a multibillion-dollar company provided to the FBI.
By Audrey Conklin
The three students were suspended from the University of Mississippi’s Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter after a photo surfaced showing them in front of a sign honoring the 14-year-old black youth who was brutally murdered in 1955.
By Emma Watkins
Having made the determination that rare earths are “essential to national defense,” the president authorizes a wave of potential investment in the industry.
By Victor Davis Hanson
A century later, how true is the traditional explanation that the treaty that ended World War I embittered and impoverished the Germans?
By Fred Lucas
The president’s appointments to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have moved it closer to ideological balance.
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