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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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
SocietyCommentary
“We’re back. Columbus Day. We’re back, Italians. We love the Italians.” That was President Donald Trump on Thursday to his Cabinet as he signed a… Read More
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President Donald Trump is successfully waging a counterrevolution against left-wing institutions using the bully pulpit and his rightful political authority. The academic Left thinks this… Read More
LawCommentary
It seems in the wake of increasing political violence, assassinations, and left-wing terrorism, you can count on left-leaning judges to go easy on perpetrators. That’s… Read More
LawCommentary
Some Democrats are apparently looking to pull off a big Civil War reenactment to the detriment of the whole country. On Monday, Illinois Gov. J.B…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Harvard is a drag, literally. Amid its ongoing fight with President Donald Trump over whether Harvard University violated the civil rights of students and even deserves to… Read More
LawCommentary
“I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents,… Read More
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The “Schumer Shutdown” is here and Democrats have essentially reversed 30 years of messaging about the dangers of closing the government. Forty-three Senate Democrats, led… Read More
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President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to “war ravaged Portland” on Saturday in a move that has been a long time in coming. Federal… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Trump administration continues to have success pushing racial discrimination in the name of “diversity” out of higher education. Earlier in September, College Board quietly dropped… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel got his job back with ABC but forgive me if I don’t care too much about his underwhelming, delayed apology to… Read More
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Kamala Harris’ return tour isn’t going well. The former vice president has reemerged lately to remind the nation how catastrophic her presidency might have been… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Charlie Kirk was right. Assassination culture, which has grown from the gaping spiritual vacuum in large parts of the West, is a profound threat to… Read More
PoliticsNews
The FBI will be pursuing every lead to get the bottom of what led to the killing of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk by… Read More
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“Today, America is a nation in grief, a nation in shock, and a nation in mourning.” That was how President Donald Trump began is remarks… Read More
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A massive funeral for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk held on Sunday featured some of the most prominent members of President Donald Trump’s administration… Read More
LawCommentary
America’s cities don’t have a crime problem. They have a repeat-offender problem. States need to double down on “three strikes” laws. The recent, brutal killing of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The immediate response of many “mainstream” liberal journalists to the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk demonstrates why so many Americans loathe the corporate media…. Read More
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Conservative radio host Charlie Kirk has been shot, according to the Utah Valley University Police Department. As of this article’s publication, The Associated Press reports the… Read More
