Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
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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
InternationalCommentary
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
LawCommentary
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
LawCommentary
American voters are motivated by a fever pitch. That’s the message from last week’s elections. The headlines were the Democratic sweep of the state legislature… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Two American women of color. Two diametrically opposed views about America. This clash of worldviews helps us to understand that what is going on in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The headline to The Washington Post obituary read, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.” “Austere religious scholar”?… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Two recent high-profile speeches by Trump administration officials say much—maybe even all we need to know—about the core cultural conflicts in the country and what… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American public servant with characteristics all too rare today—integrity, intelligence, wisdom. Moynihan was a Democrat who would find a hard… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed more great news for all Americans. And particularly for black Americans. The nation’s unemployment… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The left-wing media are having a field day distorting acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli’s comments regarding the famous poem emblazoned on… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The late historian and political philosopher Harry V. Jaffa noted the significance that the preamble to our Constitution concludes with the words “secure the Blessings… Read More
InternationalCommentary
It perplexes me why anyone would question the perfectly logical move by Israel to deny Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., entry to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The nation must now endure another gut-wrenching tragedy, with 31 having been senselessly gunned downed in Texas and Ohio over a weekend. This following a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With the next round of Democratic presidential candidate debates upon us, we will surely hear more about government activism to fix racial inequalities. Inequality is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives is starting to look more and more like America’s universities. Freshmen show up not to learn, but to teach…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Democrats in Congress have again brought the minimum wage to the national political stage. Legislation moving forward in the House, H.R. 582, the Raise the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A new Gallup poll shines a spotlight on the deep political divide in America and surely points to what the upcoming presidential election will be… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Congressional hearings are a fixture in Washington and are supposedly a tool for investigation by the nation’s lawmaking body. Unfortunately, too often when Democrats are… Read More
EducationCommentary
For those who despair that the rule of law in America is being crushed by liberal fake news, we have encouraging news out of Ohio…. Read More
LawCommentary
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is, once again, under attack. And, once again, the attacks are from liberals who cannot tolerate Thomas’ consistent, unyielding… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point,” observed writer and theologian C.S. Lewis. Hayley… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When we talk about “pro-life” in our national discussion about abortion, “life” is understood to be about the unborn child in the mother’s womb. But… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The House Judiciary Committee has voted out the Equality Act of 2019. It now heads for a vote on the House floor with 240 co-sponsors,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With all the attention that the national debate between socialism and capitalism is getting, a new book has arrived on the scene that provides valuable… Read More
EconomyCommentary
I have been an advocate for years of changing our Social Security system to a program of ownership rather than government taxing and spending. To… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
So now special counsel Robert Mueller has issued his report, and it turns out after two years of investigation, at an estimated cost of $40… Read More
EducationCommentary
I recently joined the board of the Leadership Institute, which sponsors Campus Reform, an important website for college news. Campus Reform is a “watchdog to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Trump administration has taken another critically important step in strengthening the moral health of our nation, and hence our future. The Department of Health… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In a new Gallup poll, 35 percent say government is the worst problem facing the U.S. In the 55 years that Gallup has asked the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump was principled and politically astute to address, in his State of the Union, the horrors taking place now in Venezuela, and then… Read More
