Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
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If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This past week, the nation noted the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The speech is without… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Using statistics from the Department of Labor, The Wall Street Journal reports that real hourly wages during the Biden presidency have declined. When Joe Biden… Read More
LawCommentary
The series of decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in its latest session are so consequential that I would call it “a new birth… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas, found Texas’ anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. This is a free country, the court proclaimed, and individuals… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorating National Police Week. President… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It is a unique and special time now because Christians, Jews, and Muslims all are engaged in major holidays of religious contemplation and renewal: Christians… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Historian Arnold Toynbee observed “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” It’s hard not to think about this reading the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Widely reported in the press is that President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern about judicial reforms that are… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Shock… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden announced he will not veto a resolution passed by the Republican-controlled House that overturns a new District of Columbia crime reform law,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands will march, as they have marched since 1973. But… Read More
SocietyCommentary
By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a… Read More
EducationCommentary
Schools in the Rochester school district in Michigan include in their curriculum a course called “History of Ethnic and Gender Studies.” If my child were… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
There are plenty of postmortems about Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Republican candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia. Yes, in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Among the key headlines from the 2022 election were gains by Republicans among minority voters. According to the AP VoteCast survey, Republican House candidates got… Read More
LawCommentary
President Joe Biden’s $400 billion 2022 election bribe—also known as student loan forgiveness—has been now stopped in its tracks on two fronts. First, in Texas,… Read More
LawCommentary
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his political activist wife, Ginni, are a high-profile Washington conservative power couple. Power couples are a common Washington phenomenon…. Read More
Economy Commentary
New polling data from Gallup show Americans are not having an easy time through this period of rising prices. According to Gallup, 56% of Americans… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden travelled to Philadelphia, to Independence Hall, the place where the nation’s Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, to make his case for… Read More
EducationCommentary
No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness ($10,000 for nonrecipients of Pell Grants and $20,000 for Pell Grant… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I wrote a column in 2011, as the presidential politics of the upcoming year were starting to unfold, with the headline “Why 2012 looks a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A central pillar of the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act is $80 billion going to the IRS to hire some 87,000 new agents, doubling the current… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A favorite game of politicians, when reality does not conform to the facts they want, is to simply redefine reality. Democrats want big government, a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
New polling from Pew Research and from The New York Times/Siena College, released a few days apart, cast similarly dismal pictures regarding the popularity of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Gallup polling organization seems to serve up endlessly bleak news about how Americans feel about God and country. I wrote recently about its report… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
With the Supreme Court concluding one of the most historic and consequential terms in its history, it leaves in its wake consequences and implications for… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The cries from the left predicting the end of the world in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Per a new report from Gallup, the percentage of Americans now saying they believe in God is the lowest since it first started doing the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden spoke at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday and addressed the issue foremost on the minds of Americans today, inflation. And… Read More
