Henry’s back after a brief hiatus as election season heats up! He’s joined by National Review’s Jim Geraghty to parse out the parties’ business-as-usual dysfunction from the special brand of it we’ve gotten used to recently. They consider whether the Republican Party even knows what it wants; what they’ll do if they pull off the trifecta in Novembe…

President Biden is pushing through climate regulations at record speed as his administration, activists, and international organizations warn of an impending climate disaster absent drastic policy changes. But as the US pauses exports of liquefied natural gas and attempts to spend over a trillion dollars on climate initiatives, few stop to ask the …

We split on who has the upper hand in the coming debates, but all agree there are risks and rewards and that the race could use a little shaking up. Less shook up, it appears, is American public opinion when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, which remains firmly in the latter’s camp. And the COVID reckoning is speeding up. Give a listen. Sou…

Cliff Sims had a front-row seat in the White House to some of President Donald Trump’s biggest decisions and helped craft the administration’s message to the American people. As a special assistant to the president, Sims served as a key staffer in the White House communications office before later moving to a different role as deputy director of na…

Up on today’s Problematic Women – We discuss new U.S. News and World Report state ranking and the best place to buy a home…if you can afford one. Plus, worker productivity has increased over the last 50 years, but have wages? We discuss the effects. And, it’s Police Week, we discuss what the state of justice looks like under the Biden administratio…

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: The first “Call Me Back” Live Event will take place on Monday June 3 at 6:00 pm at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. At the event — which will ultimately be posted as an episode — we will be talking to Michael Rapaport about the crisis of antisemitism in America and what it means for Israel and for American Jews. Partial procee…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: · President Biden and former President Trump agreed to two debates before the 2024 election. · Several primaries took place on Tuesday. · Inflation slows in April, but remains high. · Congress launched a probe into over a dozen nonprofit organizations linked to anti-Israel protests on coll…

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden will participate in a debate hosted by CNN next month. Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Editor David Harsanyi as they analyze whether the first 2024 face-to-face showdown will be a fair fight, explain why corporate media need to be treated like the enemy they are, and …

Are smartphones and social media bad for kids’ mental health? According to a number of recent books, articles, and op-eds, the answer is an emphatic yes: The rise of smartphones and social media corresponded not only to a rise in the incidence of mental health problems but to a decline in academic performance. Indeed, in popular media, there almost…

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The Big Bang theory changed how we understand our universe. But who do we have to thank for it? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with esteemed cosmologist Jean-Pierre Luminet, who sets the record straight on the real heroes of the Big Bang Theory with his new book The Big Bang Revolutionaries, available now fr…

Jay W. Richards, PhD, is Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and Executive Editor of The Stream. Jay is author or editor of more than a dozen …