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Daniel Mccarthy

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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)

If America is in a trade war, the question to ask is, are we tired of winning yet? “Donald Trump reaps $50bn tariff haul as... Read More The post...

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The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump’s trade wins shock the experts — who are blind to business reality

Trump’s trade wins shock the experts — who are blind to business reality

Trump can do things economists say can’t be done because he approaches trade the way he conducts his real-estate business: It’s a negotiation, and...

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New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Why Trump’s cost cutters are wise to have Reagan’s ‘one-man DOGE’ Don Devine on speed dial

Why Trump’s cost cutters are wise to have Reagan’s ‘one-man DOGE’ Don Devine on speed dial

Don Devine made bold, even shocking moves as Ronald Reagan’s Office of Personnel Management head more than 40 years ago. Now he's a mentor to a new...

26.07.2025 7

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?

Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory. It was born last week, when news broke of CBS canceling Colbert’s late-night talk show.......

23.07.2025 20

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

DANIEL MCCARTHY: Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?

DANIEL MCCARTHY: Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?

22.07.2025 8

The Daily Caller

Daniel Mccarthy

Stephen Colbert fans’ cancellation hysteria takes Trump Derangement Syndrome to the max

Stephen Colbert fans’ cancellation hysteria takes Trump Derangement Syndrome to the max

Donald Trump didn’t get Stephen Colbert taken off the air — everything Democrats like about Colbert did.

22.07.2025 40

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

What Trump Knows About Superman

What Trump Knows About Superman

The new “Superman” movie isn’t an attack on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but it shows how alienated from America many...

18.07.2025 1

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

DANIEL MCCARTHY: What Trump Knows About Superman

The new “Superman” movie isn’t an attack on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but it shows how alienated from America many liberals in...

18.07.2025 2

The Daily Caller

Daniel Mccarthy

What Trump knows about ‘Superman’ — that Hollywood can’t comprehend

What Trump knows about ‘Superman’ — that Hollywood can’t comprehend

In James Gunn’s new film, America is nothing special. Neither, for that matter, is Superman. It's a bland and demoralizing vision all too typical of...

16.07.2025 10

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

DANIEL MCCARTHY: A Big Beautiful Test Of GOP Principles And Discipline

DANIEL MCCARTHY: A Big Beautiful Test Of GOP Principles And Discipline

The Big Beautiful Bill — a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms — is now...

13.07.2025 3

The Daily Caller

Daniel Mccarthy

A Big, Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline 

A Big, Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline 

The “Big, Beautiful Bill”—a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms—is...

09.07.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

DANIEL MCCARTHY: Democrats Need Populism, But Not Zohran’s Sort

DANIEL MCCARTHY: Democrats Need Populism, But Not Zohran’s Sort

Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the...

08.07.2025 4

The Daily Caller

Daniel Mccarthy

Republicans’ righteous win on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ saved the party’s future

Republicans’ righteous win on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ saved the party’s future

Republicans passed two make-or-break tests last week: one of party discipline, the other of political principles.

08.07.2025 20

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Democrats Need a Dose of Populism, But Not Mamdani’s Kind

Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the...

02.07.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Between Mamdani and Fetterman, flailing Democrats seek a populist agenda that works

In an era when populism keeps gaining momentum, Democratic insiders habitually turn to political has-beens to rescue the party — dooming them to...

01.07.2025 20

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One

The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons—it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security....

26.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Iran’s ‘sleeper cell’ threat proves we MUST secure our borders

Globalization extends the battlefields of regional wars to our own land and airspace — and Joe Biden's lax border policies worsened the danger.

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New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home

When gray-haired white liberals take to America’s streets for “No Kings” protests, the only danger they’re exposing themselves to is ridicule....

18.06.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Failed ‘March to Gaza’ was pure absurdity — exposing the left’s impotent rage

Outside the comfortable confines of the Western world that leftist protesters denounce as intolerably unjust, pastimes like theirs can and do get...

17.06.2025 60

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

American Intifada

The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration—they’re part of a revolutionary movement....

11.06.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Los Angeles anti-ICE rioters are launching the left’s American intifada

"Anti-colonialist" leftists see Mexico as America's Palestine — and when illegal immigrants and their allies riot, it's justified resistance they...

10.06.2025 6

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump, Harvard, and the Brain-Drain Myth

Has President Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain,” The Economist warns....

28.05.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump vs. Harvard and the dangerous myth of ‘academic brain drain’

Foreign-policy mavens claim President Trump's effort to bar foreign students threatens national security — but their argument is intended to deceive.

26.05.2025 10

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

China’s Power Is a Virus

When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do? More than 1.2 million Americans died... Read...

24.05.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

DANIEL MCCARTHY: How Glenn Youngkin’s Miracle Became A Curse

'Self-immolation'

21.05.2025 5

The Daily Caller

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump must make China pay for the death and misery its COVID virus unleashed

Punitive measures against the Chinese economy won’t bring back the victims of COVID — but they must not be forgotten: That's part of the moral...

20.05.2025 4

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Virginia GOP’s gay-porn disaster a lesson to Republicans: primaries matter

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is on the verge of forfeiting Virginia to the Democrats this year — and the looming defeat can't be blamed on President Donald...

14.05.2025 5

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump’s Rumble on Sesame Street

President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he’s up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris:...

07.05.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Left’s ‘Big Bird defense’ won’t work this time as Trump axes funds for biased PBS, NPR

President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he’s up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala...

06.05.2025 9

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

50 years after Saigon fell, US and Ukraine must heed Vietnam’s grim lessons

While Americans mourn the fall of Saigon, few wish we had stayed in the Vietnam War longer — or believe doing so would have produced a different...

30.04.2025 4

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Don’t Make Ukraine Another Vietnam

Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces......

30.04.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Pope Francis was meant to modernize Church, but tradition is what’s needed now

When the College of Cardinals chose Argentina’s Jorge Maria Bergoglio as successor to the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, they made a guess about where...

22.04.2025 10

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Is Luigi Mangione the Left’s Donald Trump?

On CNN, approving of murder is hardly any worse than voting for Donald Trump. Indeed, voting for Trump may be worse, given how CNN senior... Read More...

16.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Taylor Lorenz, Luigi Mangione and the left’s fetish for political violence

Democrats are increasingly channeling emotion away from candidates and policy disputes and toward street action and violent fantasies.

15.04.2025 7

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Tariffs Are a Reason to Cut Taxes and Red Tape

If there’s one thing supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump’s tariffs should agree on, it’s the need to unchain prosperity at home...

08.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Lawfare Isn’t Beaten—in France or America

Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom—unless you’re French or, in this country, a liberal. What a judge......

02.04.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

The left’s global lawfare claims a new victim — and America isn’t safe

A judge kicked Marine Le Pen out of France's next presidential election. It mirrors what Democrats dream of doing here.

02.04.2025 40

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Will Trump Turn Nationalism Against America?

President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he’s the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth—but there’s one power even Trump...

26.03.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump the dealmaker must learn that nationalism cuts both ways — or risk wrecking his presidency

President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he’s the leader of the mightiest nation on earth — but there’s one power even Trump...

25.03.2025 10

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Enraged Democrats turn on Chuck Schumer— tearing their own party apart

Because Schumer couldn’t outmaneuver Trump in the budget showdown, his own team considers him not just a loser but a traitor.

18.03.2025 5

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?

President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s......

12.03.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Europe’s Decline Was a Choice

Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe’s leaders the way President Donald Trump does, but he too has a tough message......

05.03.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Europe must awaken its patriotism to halt its decline — and face Putin

Europe's leaders embraced a progressive liberalism that demonized all the traditional sources of a nation’s strength — its historic religion,...

04.03.2025 20

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump is shaking Europe from slumber

If Europe’s leaders dare learn the tough lesson Trump is teaching, they will restore national cohesion — which prosperity alone is never enough to...

25.02.2025 10

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Washington’s bureaucrats make a sham of democracy — time for reform is now under Trump

Donald Trump is the first president to confront the ugly truth: When Americans send a Republican to the Oval Office, they get a government run mostly...

19.02.2025 30

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Can Trump Win Trade Wars Before They Start?

Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs. Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada...

04.02.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump’s Canada tariff tiff tells America’s friends to get real on defense spending

Sometimes the best thing a person or nation can do for a friend is get tough — and Canada has long been unserious about meeting its security...

04.02.2025 30

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Pro-life movement is reborn under Trump, as abortion fades from the national debate

With federal power no longer in play, even arguments over abortion can become less acrimonious as Americans reach consensus state by state.

30.01.2025 20

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy

Trump Inaugurates a New Era

Breathtaking: There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. President Trump is back with all...

21.01.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Daniel Mccarthy

The breathtaking promises in Trump’s address are just what the nation wants

There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address than breathtaking.

21.01.2025 20

New York Post

Daniel Mccarthy