Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
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Sometimes, the legacy of great men is that the world doesn’t realize how great they were until they are gone. This might be the case… Read More
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I’m a conservative, and I guess I should be writing a column about my great distress resulting from this election. But I’m not going to… Read More
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In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans. When the country transitioned to… Read More
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Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic… Read More
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During the course of the COVID-19 crisis, an ongoing, and very legitimate, national debate has continued about the wisdom of lockdowns. The decision to shut… Read More
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I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class. Two students… Read More
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New York City is becoming an economic basket case. “‘We’re at war’: New York City Faces a Financial Abyss,” screams a New York Times headline…. Read More
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Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, says, “Our No. 1 goal must be to communicate the stakes of this Supreme Court fight to the American people.”… Read More
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that “no two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever… Read More
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As Washington has been frozen in debate about whether to pass massive new economic stimulus legislation, something interesting has happened in the real world. In… Read More
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I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in… Read More
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As so much despair has gripped our nation during this difficult time, I decided to go into our nation’s most distressed communities with a message… Read More
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The Trump administration recently rescinded a fair housing rule adopted in the early months of the Obama administration. The so-called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule… Read More
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The Joint Economic Committee of Congress has just produced an important new study titled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home.” The report exhaustively presents… Read More
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Decent Americans who are feeling perplexed today shouldn’t be ashamed about it. There is good reason to be perplexed. On the one hand, in the… Read More
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President Donald Trump announced at the White House his unequivocal commitment to getting America’s schools back open. “So, what we want to do is, we… Read More
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The debate now surrounding the Emancipation Monument that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., is a critical discussion in which I believe all Americans… Read More
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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that homosexual and transgender individuals are covered by the anti-discrimination provision, Title VII, of the 1964 Civil Rights Act…. Read More
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In 1992, I operated a small publishing business in Los Angeles. It was destroyed as a result of riots that ensued after four police officers… Read More
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President Donald Trump stepped up to declare houses of worship “essential places that provide essential services” to the American people. “The governors need to do… Read More
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We’re seeing now what efforts against COVID-19 were supposed to produce: a flattening of the growth curve of new fatalities. The growth rate of fatalities… Read More
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At this writing, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is 42,425. This is just a little higher than the number of deaths… Read More
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Here are a few examples of headlines over recent weeks. “Republicans exploit coronavirus to restrict abortions.” —Los Angeles Times “The Coronavirus Becomes an Excuse to… Read More
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Several months ago, before anyone imagined the current crisis, I read a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was a Jewish… Read More
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The coronavirus crisis presents challenges to us as a nation and as individuals. There are principles we should keep in mind. Let’s remember how our… Read More
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I was proud when Marc Little, chairman of my organization, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, recently stood behind President Donald Trump at a… Read More
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It has been said that the very moment a man finds himself, he finds God. That captures the story of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,… Read More
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In March 2020, the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s new abortion law, which requires that physicians doing abortions have admitting privileges… Read More
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The muted reaction of leading Democratic politicians to the elimination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani reinforces my sense of what divides our country and… Read More
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There’s a general assumption in public policy discourse that economic policy and social policy are separate universes. When economic policy is the topic, we think… Read More
