Section: The Daily Signal (USA)
She Survived China’s Forced Labor Camp. Now She’s Urging Americans to Reject Socialism.
Jennifer Zeng grew up admiring the Communist Party of China and adhering to its stringent rules. But her life changed forever when she embraced religion and was swept up in a government crackdown on Falun Gong. Arrested four times as a young adult and held in as a prisoner in a labor camp, she quickly woke up to the horrors of living in a...
What Those Decrying America’s ‘Endless Wars’ Are Really Talking About
From the presidential candidate debate stage to new think tanks, voices from both left and right are demanding an end to America’s endless wars. Only one problem: We’re not fighting any endless wars. No matter. The endless-war warriors want us to do less on the world stage. Even in this age of great power competition, these “new”...
It’s Not Just Central America: Where Illegal Immigrants on the Border Come From
The recent spike in illegal immigration from African countries underscores the increase in migrants coming from around the globe to sneak across the southern border–including more than 10,000 from Asia and almost 900 from Europe last year. In recent weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 500 illegal immigrants from...
There’s No Need to Subsidize American Uranium
There is no compelling evidence that uranium imports present a threat to America’s national security interests. But President Donald Trump is expected to weigh in on a petition between now and mid-July brought by two uranium mining companies which have tried to build that case. If their lobbying efforts are successful, the payout could be a...
Leftism Makes People Meaner: Reflections on the Torture of Paul Manafort
The sadistic treatment of Paul Manafort illustrates something I have believed since I attended graduate school in the 1970s and saw the behavior of left-wing students: Leftism makes people meaner. There are kind and mean conservatives and kind and mean liberals. Neither liberalism nor conservatism makes people kinder or meaner. But this is not...
American Soldiers on D-Day Set the Bar for Courage
KYIV, Ukraine—This week we honor the soldiers who saved Europe by storming the beaches of Normandy 75 years ago on D-Day—June 6, 1944. These soldiers were not born and bred to be warriors. No, they were born as free men, with other plans besides going to war. Family. Career. A life lived with purpose in peace and in pursuit of happiness. These...
Five Years In, What The Daily Signal Has Achieved
When I first became a reporter, one of the things that startled me was just how many other reporters there were. Whether I was holding out my recorder to catch what Donald Trump and Sarah Palin were saying in Times Square, or waiting outside the Senate chamber to hear John McCain’s latest take, or standing at the Iowa State Fair to hear...
After 4 Years of a Frozen Conflict, Ukrainians Slowly Retake Ground From Russian Forces
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian troops are slowly advancing in the country’s eastern war zone, testing the limits of a shaky stalemate in the five-year-old conflict against Russia and its separatist proxies. In the last year, Ukrainian military forces retook 24 square kilometers (about 9.3 square miles) of territory in the country’s embattled...
What Bernie Sanders Missed On His Soviet Honeymoon
Bernie Sanders and I have little in common, given his passionate commitment to “democratic” socialism and my firm belief in individual freedom. But we do share one thing: We both visited Moscow in 1988, albeit for differing reasons. Sanders was on what he called “a very strange honeymoon” with his bride Jane. I was traveling in the Soviet Union...
US, Russia Vie Over the Future of Venezuela
The crisis in Venezuela is only getting worse by the week. And with Russian backing, it looks less likely that dictator Nicolas Maduro will step aside. Ana Quintana of The Heritage Foundation explains what’s at stake, and what’s going on. Read our interview, posted below, or listen to it on the podcast: We also cover these stories:...
