The war with Iran has settled into a dangerous pattern of strikes, retaliation and stalled negotiations. Iran appears to be using talks to buy time while continuing to threaten the Gulf, tankers and the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States has already damaged major parts of Iran’s military and political structure, but the conflict will continue unless Iran loses the ability to keep attacking its neighbors and disrupting global shipping. The path forward is to raise the cost on Iran’s military infrastructure, weaken its ability to strike and create the conditions for most American forces to come home.
With oil prices stabilizing, regional allies capable of helping keep the strait open and the midterms approaching, the question is whether Trump can end the conflict decisively and shift attention back to the economy and the political fights at home. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.
The radical left continues to nominate extreme candidates under the guise of moderation, a strategy that is rapidly failing as the American public wakes up to their bankrupt agenda.
Meanwhile, a growing wave of far-left political figures weaponize identity politics and open-border policies to fundamentally reshape the nation while expressing open contempt for the very country that granted them prosperity.
This unsustainable shift has completely alienated everyday Americans who are tired of watching their laws, borders, and national sovereignty get taken for granted. Here’s a new edition of The Daily Signal with Victor Davis Hanson.
The far left has enjoyed one-party rule in the City of Angels for decades, but now there’s a slight wrinkle in their plans as Los Angeles might finally get its first non-left mayor in years this Tuesday.
Spencer Pratt, the nominally conservative former reality TV star turned political activist, is currently trailing by less than five points behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and is even closer to current City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, according to recent polling by UC Berkeley/The Los Angeles Times.
Why? Twofold: Two far-left candidates may split the vote, and Pratt, for all the grief the Left bestows upon him, is not really identifiable as a MAGA Republican—the thing Los Angeles voters hate most—argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.
The traditional Democrat Party of the last century has been systematically replaced by a radical Jacobin movement that seeks the fundamental transformation of Western civilization.
This new faction mirrors the French Revolution’s extremists by toppling statues, weaponizing race through DEI, and showing open disdain for national borders.
From billionaire socialists to the rejection of law and order, the modern Left has abandoned the working class in favor of a revolutionary agenda that endangers the very foundations of the American Republic, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
No president in U.S. history has been the target of three assassination attempts in which shots were fired by either law enforcement or the shooter himself.
And yet this is Trump’s third time. Political violence doesn’t happen overnight. For almost a decade now, the Left has reified the idea that 1. Trump is “literally Hitler” and 2. that harming him is justified—Gavin Newsom and Robert De Niro talked about hitting Trump in the mouth.
Shakespeare in the Park substituted Caesar for a Trump look-alike. Anthony Bourdain said he’d poison him. And that lowers the bar.
And that means people like Cole Tomas Allen come out of the woodwork, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
We’re 60 days into the conflict, and President Donald Trump has left the Iranian regime with three options:
The non-hard-liners could agree to the United States’ terms and surrender.
The regime could continue to try and win token victories—send out small PT boats and drones to attack freighters in the Strait of Hormuz.
Delay negotiations in the hopes that a more friendly Democratic administration comes to power in 2028, offering the theocrats more favorable terms, predicts Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
The Democrat Party, which brags that it doesn’t let democracy die in darkness, has a bad habit of culling candidates it feels are politically antithetical to its agenda. Take Eric Swalwell, for example.
Swalwell joined an already crowded field for California governor in November 2025. He threatened to break up the Democrat field, as there are more viable Democrat candidates than Republicans. Make no mistake: Had Swalwell been enjoying a healthy lead in the polls going into last Friday, he’d still be running for governor, and these allegations would’ve never seen the light of day.
Like Joe Biden’s failed reelection bid in 2024, the Democrat establishment made the strategic decision to no longer cloak Swalwell’s sex harassment allegations and instead threw its weight behind a more viable candidate.
Victor Davis Hanson, in a new edition of his podcast In a Few Words, concludes, “But my point is, if Eric Swalwell had been way ahead in the gubernatorial race, I don’t think that any of this would’ve surfaced. It would’ve been analogous to Joe Biden. He would’ve been a useful vessel, and he would’ve won the governorship, and the Republicans wouldn’t have had a chance.”
Eric Swalwell laid out his class motto for his high schoo9l graduation yearbook in 1999 where he wrote, “When you can’t have it, you must take it.”
Now, he’s not only been forced to resign from Congress, but it’s looking like he might be charged with rape involving underaged victims.
In other words, Swalwell flaunted social propriety. He envisioned himself another Jeffrey Epstein, chasing and seizing young poontang. Here’s more from Benny Johnson.
Following the Democrats’ crushing defeat at the ballot box in 2024, the DNC launched a postmortem to answer a very simple yet surprisingly elusive question: What went wrong?
Their findings? On 70-30 issues, Democrats landed on the 30 side. Their solution?
Democrats aren’t changing their message—they’re just rebranding the mess. From Pete Buttigieg in flannel to Tim Walz playing hunter, the “working-class pivot” looks more like political cosplay.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to connect on issues that actually matter to voters. The bottom line: You can’t fake authenticity—and voters aren’t buying it. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.
Here’s a brutal reality check for the NATO free-loaders!
Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe. However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million. “
And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”
