<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Signal · U.S.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com</link><description>The signal, not the noise.</description><item><title>New York is holding $19.3 million that belongs to a Kentucky order of nuns</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/new-york-is-holding-19-3-million-that-belongs-to-a-kentucky-order-of-nuns-39065.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-18T03:37:53+00:00</pubDate><description>The Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence sold a Manhattan home after unaffordable repairs forced a closure. New York attorney general Letitia James approved the sale, but she has not released the remaining proceeds.</description></item><item><title>John Spencer says America is already at war with Iran. The lesson is expensive.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/john-spencer-says-america-is-already-at-war-with-iran-the-lesson-is-expensive-38349.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-16T21:39:15+00:00</pubDate><description>Retired Army major John Spencer revisits his combat experience and argues that the United States is in a war with Iran. The stakes are not abstract: the cost of conflict is paid in blood, readiness, and national security.</description></item><item><title>Chris Wright says energy abundance can lower power costs. The Trump bet is reliability over net-zero.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/chris-wright-says-energy-abundance-can-lower-power-costs-the-trump-bet-is-reliab-37751.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-14T07:18:02+00:00</pubDate><description>The energy secretary argues that abundance, not scarcity, should guide policy as electricity prices rise and demand grows. His case is simple: keep power available, reopen plants, and the cost to households and businesses should come down.</description></item><item><title>Michael Moritz is betting $50 million on San Francisco. The city’s comeback is now a test of incentives.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/michael-moritz-is-betting-50-million-on-san-francisco-the-citys-comeback-is-now--37378.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-12T08:56:00+00:00</pubDate><description>The former Sequoia Capital chairman, worth an estimated $7.6 billion, says he wants to help revive the city he calls home. His latest move is a competition offering up to $50 million to as many as three organizations with ideas to make San Francisco better.</description></item><item><title>Every Incentive Said Retreat. Bush Chose the Surge.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/every-incentive-said-retreat-bush-chose-the-surge-37227.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-11T16:30:29+00:00</pubDate><description>General David Petraeus recounts how a president facing collapsing polls, a lost Congress, and a skeptical military made the one decision no political logic could justify — and why that still matters.</description></item><item><title>Private Opinions, Public Silence. A New Survey Maps What Americans Won&#x27;t Say Out Loud.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/private-opinions-public-silence-a-new-survey-maps-what-americans-won-t-say-out-l-36919.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-10T10:18:16+00:00</pubDate><description>The Free Press and Populace asked Americans what they truly believe about billionaires, data centers, Israel, and antisemitism — and the gap between public and private opinion is the story.</description></item><item><title>He Was Her Doctor. He Was Her Boyfriend. He Allegedly Forced an Abortion on Her.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/he-was-her-doctor-he-was-her-boyfriend-he-allegedly-forced-an-abortion-on-her-36759.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-10T01:02:03+00:00</pubDate><description>Jona Affholder says her surgeon boyfriend pinned her down and tried to administer abortion medication by force. Her account raises hard questions about who, exactly, medication abortion &#x27;access&#x27; has protected.</description></item><item><title>Cash for Ex-Cons. A Florida Program Has Paid Out $1.3 Million. Does It Work?</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/cash-for-ex-cons-a-florida-program-has-paid-out-1-3-million-does-it-work-36585.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-09T10:30:12+00:00</pubDate><description>A Gainesville nonprofit has given 172 formerly incarcerated people nearly $10,000 each, no strings attached. The evidence on whether it reduces recidivism is still being written.</description></item><item><title>Marxist Principles, $95,000 Salaries. The DSA Has a Contradiction to Explain.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/marxist-principles-95-000-salaries-the-dsa-has-a-contradiction-to-explain-36580.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-09T10:14:06+00:00</pubDate><description>A South Brooklyn branch meeting approved co-chair compensation for New York City DSA leaders Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo — over the objections of members who said the organization has no real budget process.</description></item><item><title>She Let Her Son Walk to a Pond. A Virginia Judge Made Her a Criminal.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/she-let-her-son-walk-to-a-pond-a-virginia-judge-made-her-a-criminal-36424.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-09T00:06:07+00:00</pubDate><description>Karyann Parkinson allowed her 5-year-old to collect goose feathers in a gated community. She was convicted of a misdemeanor and placed on the child-abuse registry. The state had a different lesson in mind.</description></item><item><title>Ten Minutes. That Is All the Warning America Gets. The Hypersonic Gap Is Real.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/ten-minutes-that-is-all-the-warning-america-gets-the-hypersonic-gap-is-real-36423.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-09T00:01:31+00:00</pubDate><description>Stratolaunch CEO Zachary Krevor says a Chinese hypersonic missile aimed at either U.S. coast would leave roughly ten minutes of warning time — and that China and Russia have outpaced the United States in developing these weapons.</description></item><item><title>Charlie Kirk Was Shot Dead Onstage. Spencer Cox Was There Hours Later.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/charlie-kirk-was-shot-dead-onstage-spencer-cox-was-there-hours-later-36422.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-08T23:53:27+00:00</pubDate><description>The Utah governor recounts the 48 hours after the September 10, 2025 killing at Utah Valley University — and what the aftermath revealed about American politics.</description></item><item><title>Trump Built a Movement Around Himself. A Historian Asks What Outlives Him.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/trump-built-a-movement-around-himself-a-historian-asks-what-outlives-him-34692.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-04T18:16:27+00:00</pubDate><description>Victor Davis Hanson&#x27;s new book on Trump&#x27;s comeback poses the question conservatives cannot avoid: does MAGA survive once the man who founded it steps aside?</description></item><item><title>Parents Are Holding Kids Back. The System Didn&#x27;t Ask.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/parents-are-holding-kids-back-the-system-didn-t-ask-34493.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-04T08:03:27+00:00</pubDate><description>A Michigan mother decided her daughter would repeat kindergarten before any school official raised the question — a small act of parental judgment against a system built for averages.</description></item><item><title>The Pentagon Loses a Check on Chaos. The Merit System Goes With It.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/the-pentagon-loses-a-check-on-chaos-the-merit-system-goes-with-it-33670.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-02T06:42:05+00:00</pubDate><description>Army Secretary Dan Driscoll&#x27;s resignation removes one of the last internal safeguards against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#x27;s purge of senior military leadership, according to military and congressional insiders.</description></item><item><title>A Democrat Warns His Own Party: Reject the DSA.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/a-democrat-warns-his-own-party-reject-the-dsa-33669.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-02T06:40:46+00:00</pubDate><description>Rep. Tom Suozzi says a small but disciplined socialist faction is winning primaries and could define his party for voters this November — a warning Democrats ignore at their own risk.</description></item><item><title>Twenty-Five Years Later, the Lies About 9/11 Multiply. Columnist Douglas Murray Says Someone Must Answer Them.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/twenty-five-years-later-the-lies-about-9-11-multiply-columnist-douglas-murray-sa-33577.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-02T01:42:57+00:00</pubDate><description>Writing in The Free Press, Douglas Murray warns that conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks — from the right, the left, and Islamist propagandists alike — are gaining ground as the anniversary approaches and firsthand memory fades.</description></item><item><title>The Korean War Still Splits Washington. A Historian Says We Never Settled the Argument.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/the-korean-war-still-splits-washington-a-historian-says-we-never-settled-the-arg-31623.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-28T10:58:11+00:00</pubDate><description>A new episode of the ‘School of War’ podcast argues that today&#x27;s fights over isolationism and American power trace back to the ideological fault lines opened by the Korean War.</description></item><item><title>Two Deaths, One Fact Released. Pennsylvania Explains Little Else.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/two-deaths-one-fact-released-pennsylvania-explains-little-else-31450.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-28T01:12:46+00:00</pubDate><description>Officials disclosed that two measles victims in Lancaster County were unvaccinated — and stopped there. A prominent physician says that selective disclosure, not the virus, is the story worth scrutinizing.</description></item><item><title>Forget Yourself. A University President Makes the Case Against Self-Discovery.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/forget-yourself-a-university-president-makes-the-case-against-self-discovery-30306.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-26T00:32:39+00:00</pubDate><description>At his convocation address, University of Austin president Carlos Carvalho told incoming freshmen that college is not about finding yourself — it is about losing yourself in something larger. The argument is older than the institution, and more urgent than ever.</description></item><item><title>America Needs Drones. It Needs to Build Them Without Chinese Parts.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/america-needs-drones-it-needs-to-build-them-without-chinese-parts-30065.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-25T15:36:05+00:00</pubDate><description>Defense Innovation Unit Deputy Director Travis Metz lays out the Pentagon&#x27;s billion-dollar push to build a U.S. drone arsenal — and why dependence on Chinese components is the first problem to solve.</description></item><item><title>I Worked for Bernie Sanders. His Party Is Fueling Antisemitism.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/i-worked-for-bernie-sanders-his-party-is-fueling-antisemitism-27984.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-21T16:18:42+00:00</pubDate><description>Joel Rubin, Sanders&#x27;s former Jewish outreach director, says anti-Zionism has become a loyalty test inside the Democratic Party — and his old boss is at the center of it.</description></item><item><title>The Far Left Is Having a Moment. The Question Is Whether It Lasts.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/the-far-left-is-having-a-moment-the-question-is-whether-it-lasts-27318.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T13:50:31+00:00</pubDate><description>From New York City to Florida, socialist-aligned candidates are winning primaries — and AOC is now the front-runner for 2028, according to prediction markets.</description></item><item><title>A DSA Convert Beats the Establishment. Florida&#x27;s Democratic Primary Has a New Map.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/a-dsa-convert-beats-the-establishment-florida-s-democratic-primary-has-a-new-map-27099.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T05:14:31+00:00</pubDate><description>State representative Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist and union organizer, defeated retired lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary — a result that scrambles assumptions about where the socialist left can and cannot win.</description></item><item><title>Fauci&#x27;s Private Notes Are Public. The Gap Is Not a Rounding Error.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/fauci-s-private-notes-are-public-the-gap-is-not-a-rounding-error-26874.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-19T20:18:48+00:00</pubDate><description>Senator Rand Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci&#x27;s government-server diaries last month. What they reveal about the distance between his public statements and his private beliefs is the story.</description></item><item><title>Big Bend&#x27;s Wall. The locals who live there are furious — and they have a point.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/big-bend-s-wall-the-locals-who-live-there-are-furious-and-they-have-a-point-26646.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-19T11:30:30+00:00</pubDate><description>The Trump administration is pushing a border wall through one of America&#x27;s most spectacular landscapes. The people who actually live there, most of them conservatives, say it is expensive security theater. This week, the bulldozers paused. The fight is not over.</description></item><item><title>Trump Signed the Law That Freed Them. Now Only Trump Can Keep Them Free.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/trump-signed-the-law-that-freed-them-now-only-trump-can-keep-them-free-26434.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-19T02:56:31+00:00</pubDate><description>A Supreme Court ruling has put roughly a dozen former inmates back in legal jeopardy — men released under the First Step Act who may be reincarcerated unless the president acts. The record on who built this problem, and who can solve it, is unambiguous.</description></item><item><title>License Plates, Local Politics, and the Surveillance Camera America Loves to Hate</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/license-plates-local-politics-and-the-surveillance-camera-america-loves-to-hate-26081.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-18T13:25:12+00:00</pubDate><description>Flock cameras have helped solve more than 700 crimes. They have also been used by officers to stalk ex-girlfriends. Troy, New York is now the test case for where the line gets drawn.</description></item><item><title>McCormick&#x27;s Warning. America&#x27;s Military Is Fighting Yesterday&#x27;s War.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/mccormick-s-warning-america-s-military-is-fighting-yesterday-s-war-26079.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-18T13:24:24+00:00</pubDate><description>The Pennsylvania senator and West Point graduate says the U.S. defense establishment is unprepared for the conflicts ahead — and that unchecked inequality may be capitalism&#x27;s own undoing.</description></item><item><title>Flock&#x27;s Cameras Are Everywhere. Troy, New York Wants Them Gone.</title><link>https://thesignaltoday.com/nota/flock-s-cameras-are-everywhere-troy-new-york-wants-them-gone-25870.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-18T04:59:27+00:00</pubDate><description>A small upstate city has become ground zero for the national debate over license-plate surveillance — and the activists fighting it are raising questions that go well beyond one company&#x27;s hardware.</description></item></channel></rss>