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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“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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
PoliticsAnalysis
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
InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump could very well usher in a new birth of free speech in the United Kingdom, which very much appears to be on an… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A young woman was brutally killed on public transportation in a blue city, and the corporate media thinks that the only story worth reporting is that some… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Trump administration has launched a counterrevolution in American culture and government. As much as the credit for this sudden and dramatic reversal belongs to the president,… Read More
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“We must decouple and hard decouple starting tomorrow morning.” That was former adviser to President Donald Trump Stephen K. Bannon, on the relationship between the… Read More
Vice President JD Vance continues to be completely vindicated about the disintegration of free speech in Europe and the U.K. In February he told The Daily Signal’s… Read More
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The Left is obsessed with the idea that conservatives are the real book banners. California Democrat state Sen. Scott Weiner took to X recently to… Read More
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One of the better ways for ordinary Americans to keep our vast, federal bureaucracies in check is to submit public comments about their rulemaking. Federal… Read More
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President Donald Trump’s recent moves to address crime in the District of Columbia and around the country are not just good for public safety, they… Read More
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Gavin Newsom has memes and dunks, but does he have anything else? The California governor has received a lot of attention lately for adopting a new persona… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Donald Trump has pledged to “make D.C. safe again,” with a federal intervention to stop crime in the nation’s capital. To emphasize the point,… Read More
LawCommentary
Wild judicial activism has become the norm in the age of Trump, but the latest decision from a federal court on Monday to block Congress’… Read More
EducationCommentary
Real accountability is coming to higher education thanks to President Donald Trump. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that Columbia University agreed to pay $21… Read More
