Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett
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Speculation swirls over New York City’s incoming socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and whether he will be “rational” or a radical once he’s in office. While… Read More
Health CareNews
With the “temporary” Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, Republicans in Congress have floated several plans to make health care… Read More
LawCommentary
The Trump administration is conducting a profound revolution in civil rights law. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that it is… Read More
LawCommentary
Momentum is building to address America’s repeat-offender problem. The stabbing of the young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, by a deranged career criminal on a North… Read More
EconomyNews
As America turns 250 years old, it’s important to remember that freedom, not top-down communism, created our prosperity, Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Fraudsters in the Somali community of Minnesota stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers over a period of years, and the state government did nothing… Read More
EconomyNews
“Affordability” has become the word of the month as American economic anxieties become a major point of political contention between Democrats and Republicans. Socialist Democrat… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Department of Education may soon be closing shop, but that doesn’t mean the Trump administration’s attempt to course-correct higher education in America is finished…. Read More
LawCommentary
A young woman is fighting for her life in Chicago with severe burns because of a grave injustice intolerably common in cities across America. Bethany… Read More
Education Commentary
History is too important to be left to academia, especially in an age of crumbling institutional trust. On a recent episode of “Victor Davis Hanson:… Read More
PoliticsNews
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that he will meet with President Donald Trump or “anyone” who will help his city address affordability. Mamdani,… Read More
SecurityNews
President Donald Trump promised to tackle the issues of crime and law and order in American cities. Early in his second term, he deployed the… Read More
Going green is really about affordability, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. That’s the message from the California governor, who has totally never thought about… Read More
Commentary
Zohran Mamdani’s takeover of New York City isn’t just a problem for the Big Apple. His takeover of the city’s governing apparatus will provide an… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It looks like there’s big, Trump-sized trouble in store for the BBC. On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened the government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation with a… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave? That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump’s work on the world stage is directly and inherently connected to our success at home. One of the major media narratives following… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Well, the unthinkable happened in New York City. Democrat Zohran Mamdani, an open socialist fond of quoting Karl Marx, defeated his rivals to take command… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Election Day is upon us. Though we are still a year away from the vital 2026 midterm congressional elections, there are still a number of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“In the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision, such decisions do not carry the… Read More
EducationCommentary
This month saw yet another win against DEI in higher education, as a major California university recently dropped a racial scholarship under threat of lawsuit…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The White House is adding a ballroom and it’s basically the end of the world. That’s been the media message the last few days as… Read More
PoliticsNews
Three candidates entered the ring for the second time in the New York City mayoral race Wednesday night in one of the most closely watched… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It looks like New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is feeling quite confident after his first general election debate. Despite being a self-avowed socialist,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Donald Trump is truly addressing the “root causes” of our border problem. He’s doing this by cracking down on the crime and criminal organizations… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party and there is little the Democrat establishment can do to stop it. Most Americans are undoubtedly… Read More
PoliticsNews
Three candidates debated for the first time Thursday night in New York’s mayoral race. The election has garnered a significant amount of attention this year… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The transgender social contagion among the young may be fizzling out and there are numbers to back it up. A report released on Wednesday concluded… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Even Barack Obama knows that the Age of Obama is over, though he just can’t quite acknowledge it. That’s my take from a podcast interview… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The assisted suicide policy has always rested on a slippery slope. Western societies are now fully in the organ harvesting stage on the road to… Read More
