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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The weather is difficult to predict. Media narratives aren’t. The media bat signal is up to exploit the latest crisis for left-wing policy goals. As… Read More
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The 24-hour drop-off in Martha’s Vineyard of about 50 illegal immigrants was treated as a crisis by many in the media, with some comparing it… Read More
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The legacy media has changed its mind. We are now informed that life-changing transgender surgeries on minors are real, and that they’re spectacular. Just a… Read More
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Can artistic expression thrive under heavy-handed ideology? That’s the challenge facing artists, writers, and actors in Hollywood and elsewhere who must increasingly toe an extreme,… Read More
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The Left loves to promote “reparations”—but only up until the point where history and truth run counter to its simplistic narratives about the past. British… Read More
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President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic “over.” “We still have a problem with COVID,” Biden said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
The death of Queen Elizabeth II marked the passing of an era in British and world history. Elizabeth II, who first became queen when… Read More
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The border crisis isn’t just going north, it’s showing up at the vice’s president’s doorstep. On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that the southern… Read More
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AVENTURA, Florida—Conservatives from across the United States gathered for the third annual National Conservatism Conference, hosted by the Edmund Burke Foundation. The Daily Signal was… Read More
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The New York Times published a lengthy news story the other day explaining how over 1 million “undocumented immigrants” have been “allowed into the country… Read More
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AVENTURA, Florida—Florida has become a “refuge of sanity in a world gone mad.” That was the assessment of Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in remarks Saturday… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The border surge of the past 18 months is a crisis of the Biden administration’s own making. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday night that if you oppose him, you are an extremist who hates democracy. Flanked by two members of the… Read More
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The ideological conformity and revolutionary zeal that’s taking over Western institutions threaten to not only “fundamentally transform” society, they threaten to destroy the bedrock of… Read More
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Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of history seems like a straightforward argument from an acknowledged history scholar, right? Wrong. Not these days. The president of… Read More
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Of all the institutions that have become radicalized in the last couple of years, the realm of medicine is perhaps the most disturbing. What will… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The border has come to northern, blue cities—and Democrats aren’t handling it well. July’s border numbers are in, and the Biden administration again has set… Read More
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“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” Those were… Read More
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Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been a go-to manual for journalistic grammar and style at most media outlets. It lays out basic rules about… Read More
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Millions of people have illegally crossed the southern border into the United States in the past few years, but the Biden administration says everything is… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Illegal immigration has consequences for so many aspects of our society, from public health to health care to economics and so much more. Its greatest… Read More
LawCommentary
Troubled times may be ahead for the marriage between corporate America and the left. Starbucks recently announced that it’s closing over a dozen stores because… Read More
EducationNews
Congressional leaders unveiled a statue of education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune in a ceremony Wednesday in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. The next day, a… Read More
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The most famous victim of the Holocaust was guilty of white privilege. That assertion was an actual topic of discussion by left-wing activists on social… Read More
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Remember last year, when a few mounted Border Patrol agents were accused of “whipping” Haitian migrants at the southern border? The media and left-wing politicos… Read More
LawCommentary
The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
At National Public Radio, the document that effectively created the United States is out. Predictably, this year the left-wing media churned out a drumbeat of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The war on history came for all our past, from Columbus to the Founding Fathers to Abraham Lincoln. Now, college campuses appear to be conducting… Read More
LawCommentary
From overturning Roe v. Wade to supporting the Second Amendment and maintaining religious liberty, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions have put the left in a… Read More
EducationCommentary
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX protections for girls and women, the Biden administration proposed rule changes in enforcing the law that would have… Read More
