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Debra Saunders

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Forget Alcatraz, Mr. President. Think Nevada

WASHINGTON—Forget rehabbing Alcatraz, President Donald Trump, as you proposed on social media over the weekend. It’s not worth the years and...

07.05.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Marco Rubio Says Uncle Sam Is Monitoring Social Media. Who Doesn’t Believe Him?

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday’s White House Cabinet meeting: “We had an office in the...

05.05.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home

Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home

WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday...

29.04.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Las Vegas Packs Punch at White House, Thanks to Dana White

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s ties to Nevada penetrate beyond the high-brow donor class. The latest moment showcasing his connections to the...

16.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Iran’s President Says Iran Does Not Want the Nuclear Bomb. Who Believes That?

WASHINGTON— “A nuclear Iran isn’t just a threat, it’s the threat,” Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies warned in the...

12.04.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

To Team Trump, Tariffs Are a National Security Issue

WASHINGTON—“Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed...

09.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs for Kennedy Center Crybabies

WASHINGTON–Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing...

20.03.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty

WASHINGTON—Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in...

18.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Detrans Awareness Day Comes With a Warning

WASHINGTON–“I realized I am a guinea pig,” Forrest Smith said of his transition from male to female at age 19. After five years, Smith...

14.03.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Equal Justice for Social Justice Warriors

WASHINGTON–Kudos to President Donald Trump’s administration for canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University “due to...

13.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Trump’s Pick to Head NIH Did Not Follow the COVID-19 Herd

WASHINGTON–When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID-19 lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across...

11.03.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Jeff Bezos Launches Intervention at the Washington Post

WASHINGTON—Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion...

28.02.2025 2

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

The End of the First Week of the Second First Year

WASHINGTON—What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to...

27.01.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

A Well-Deserved Takedown of the California Political Class

Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post:......

14.01.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Trump Takes the World Stage. Embrace the Chaos.

Embrace the chaos—that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around...

11.01.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Quiet Quitting: Joe Biden’s Disappearing Presidency

The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.” Tuesday’s New...

24.12.2024 20

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

It Feels Like Trump Already Is President

President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote....

23.12.2024 10

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Joe Biden’s Work-From-Home Bureaucracy

WASHINGTON—“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst,...

11.12.2024 5

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Transgender Activists Look in the Mirror and See a Movement That Helped Defeat Kamala Harris

WASHINGTON—There’s been a change in Washington since Donald Trump won the election. Democrats have begun to wonder about some of their more extreme...

02.12.2024 5

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Don’t Be a Turkey on Thanksgiving

“My Mom Voted for Trump. Can We Let It Go?” Read the headline for The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” piece Friday. The family dynamic no doubt is...

27.11.2024 10

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

The 2024 Angle to the Menendez Brothers Saga 

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last...

29.10.2024 10

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Who Wants to Increase the National Debt? Both Trump and Harris

It’s been a little over a week since the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sent a letter to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump suggesting the...

16.10.2024 3

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Veep Debate Was Media Narrative-Buster: Showing Substance, Vance Won

This time the oddsmakers got it wrong. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was their betting favorite going into Tuesday night’s vice presidential...

04.10.2024 20

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

6 Hostages Murdered. Put Heat on Hamas, Not Netanyahu. 

WASHINGTON—A reporter asked President Joe Biden if he thought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “doing enough” as the president...

05.09.2024 2

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Kamala Harris Is No Joe Biden. Or Is She?

CHICAGO—As delegates and the media descend on the Windy City for the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris not only has to energize the...

19.08.2024 4

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

Democracy Dies in Darkness—or in White House Press Corps

This is how much Elon Musk spooks big media. At Monday’s White House press briefing, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine...

16.08.2024 5

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders

It’s Too Late, Joe

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s letter announcing that he is standing down from the general election documented all the reasons the incumbent had...

23.07.2024 2

The Daily Signal

Debra Saunders