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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Americans are waking up to the threat posed by critical race theory, which is often presented behind a cloak of secrecy and the banner of… Read More
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Informed patriotism, as Ronald Reagan once suggested, is what America needs. And that’s what some Texas lawmakers aim to bring to their state after Gov…. Read More
EducationCommentary
Ideology and virtue signaling apparently are replacing both education and standards at America’s top schools. Princeton University recently announced that it will ditch Latin and… Read More
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It looks as if the surge in violent crime of 2020 is holding steady and perhaps escalating in 2021. Numbers on violent crime from cities… Read More
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Pro wrestling star and Hollywood actor John Cena—known lately for playing good guy protagonists—has gone through quite a heel turn. Cena became mired in controversy… Read More
EducationCommentary
A Virginia school district has become an epicenter of the debates occurring over critical race theory and other, similar curriculums coming to K-12 classrooms around… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Was the Soviet Union the real “winner” of World War II? This idea came up earlier this month, as it increasingly seems to be in… Read More
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The Electoral College is under threat and the left is closer than it ever has been in getting rid of it. This was the topic… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Can Americans find no shared history or heroes to celebrate now? On Friday, the Biden administration very quietly canceled the Garden of American Heroes project… Read More
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Critical race theory, at one time limited primarily to academia, has become a controversial issue as it increasingly is showing up in K-12 school curriculums and… Read More
EducationCommentary
Critical race theory received a stunning rebuke at the polls in local Texas elections last week in a suburb of Dallas. “On one side, progressives… Read More
LawCommentary
The Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court appear to be getting serious. Left-wing proposals to put more justices on the Supreme Court have been… Read More
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Voting rights and election integrity have become significant issues in 2021 as Democrats in Congress attempt to pass a sweeping federal election overhaul bill at… Read More
InternationalCommentary
It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern… Read More
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The top executives of some of the largest corporations on the planet released a statement on Wednesday saying they support “democracy.” If that sounds bland… Read More
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Venezuela once had a vibrant middle class, despite flaws in governance. However, as two students who grew up in Venezuela explained in a Heritage Foundation… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If the problem of “woke capitalism” wasn’t apparent before, the battle over Georgia’s new election integrity law has drawn it out into the open. The… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore a growing, insidious ethos overtaking America’s most powerful institutions. Individual merit and reasoned debate are out. “Lived experience” and… Read More
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Lawmakers questioned CEOs of three of the world’s most powerful tech companies Thursday about censorship and false information on their platforms. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Whatever you do, don’t call the surge of attempted illegal immigrant crossings at the southern border a crisis. That’s the message Americans and the media… Read More
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This past year, “defund the police” has been a frequent call from activists seeking systemic reform of the American criminal justice system. It became a… Read More
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The city of Portland, Oregon, is a mess. This week, the city witnessed a telling, if predictable, incident. Police had removed a fence erected around… Read More
Economy Analysis
Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A piece of legislation working its way through Congress would upend further the way Americans conduct elections. But the way many media outlets are covering… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A mounting discontent with “cancel culture” is emerging, even in some liberal circles. On a recent episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher dedicated a… Read More
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As you likely have heard, the latest casualty of cancel culture is Dr. Seuss. And because nature abhors a vacuum, the woke left has a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the woke revolution, even cartoons are being employed to ensure the indoctrination doesn’t miss anyone. Two of the elements of the so-called “anti-racist” agenda… Read More
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If legislation now before Congress—H.R. 5, dubbed the Equality Act—becomes law, it would add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes into the 1964… Read More
EducationCommentary
“Woke” education is not just coming to history, social studies, and the humanities. A recent report by Fox News explained how the Oregon Department of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Editor’s note: Under public pressure and facing a mass recall, the San Francisco School Board announced that it would put the planned renaming of 44… Read More
