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
View all authorsLawCommentary
As states across the country begin the process of reopening, Americans continue to battle over the methods governors and local authorities have used to tackle… Read More
Health CareCommentary
America’s economy is in the early stages of “reopening” after dealing with the coronavirus pandemic for months. It’s a process that won’t be easy, simple,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The New York Times’ “1619 Project”—despite being riddled with historical inaccuracies—is now the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an outcome that is unfortunate but utterly… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Perhaps our country’s most powerful media organizations now simply don’t care how utterly one-sided their political coverage is. This appears to be the case with… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Progressives are eager not to let a “crisis go to waste” and are now aggressively pushing some ideas, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that would be… Read More
EconomyCommentary
American prosperity always has relied on the fact that we are the most productive people in human history. Unfortunately, some short-term Band-Aids for the widespread… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The lesson of history for tyrannical regimes is that the truth is dangerous. Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party knows this full well, which is why… Read More
EducationCommentary
An Ivy League professor says we need to end homeschooling, because parents who homeschool their children are “authoritarian.” In an article in Harvard Magazine‘s latest… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Recent revelations about the depth and consequences of China’s suppression of information in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic should shine a light on… Read More
SecurityCommentary
As the world continues to battle the terrible COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, it also must battle the lack of information or outright… Read More
EconomyCommentary
As Americans are trapped in their homes, unable to work, and struggling to pay bills due to the threat of a global pandemic, the left… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In times of crisis, Americans don’t look just to the government to save the day. In certain intellectual circles in the United States it’s become… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That was what Rahm Emanuel, a former mayor of Chicago who also served as chief… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The lack of regular White House press briefings used to be decried as the end of democracy. Now it’s daily White House briefings that represent… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The coronavirus pandemic has become a health crisis that’s almost unprecedented in our lifetimes. As our country and the world race to contain the spread… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Mindless virtue signaling doesn’t fare well in a real crisis. As the nation and the world confronts a deadly pandemic, and citizens, businesses, and governments… Read More
InternationalCommentary
America is in a state of lockdown, the stock market is plummeting, and countless people around the world could get sick and die as the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Hardly anything that happens in this world is truly unprecedented. As Americans respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which began in China, with canceled events, business closures,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Even the threat of global pandemic apparently can’t slow the hysterical culture of modern political correctness. Apparently, according to some in the news media and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Real socialism hasn’t been tried!” Anyone who’s gone to college in the past few decades has probably heard some form of this phrase to excuse… Read More
EconomyCommentary
It seems that Sen. Bernie Sanders can always find a way to look at the bright side of a communist dictatorship. Right after praising Cuban… Read More
LawNews
America’s free and fair elections are under threat at the local and state level and in the movement to switch to a national popular vote… Read More
EducationNews
“I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.” So… Read More
SocietyNews
Socialism works in opposition to and destroys free societies. That was the message Thursday as conservatives gathered near Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Virtue signaling is the modern, politically correct way to demonstrate your “goodness” to others, usually with little actual sacrifice or effort. It’s a kind of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Editor’s note: Two pro-life bills are making their way through the Senate. National Review’s Alexandra DeSanctis noted the absurd language used by a CNN journalist… Read More
EducationCommentary
Are our institutions of higher education little more than left-wing indoctrination centers? A recently released study found that, whether that’s generally true or not, the… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game, when the Americans beat the Russians at the Olympics—despite the fact that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
An initiative featuring the writings of black Americans will counter and rebut a New York Times Magazine project that “reframes” all of U.S. history around… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Despite China’s incredible economic success as of late, it’s important to remember that it is still fundamentally a communist country. Recent events have been a… Read More
