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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What a difference a new year and a new president makes. More and more good news from the southern border highlights how the Biden administration… Read More
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The Associated Press is getting kicked out of the White House, but this is hardly a random act of vindictiveness from President Donald Trump. The… Read More
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The massive flood of illegal aliens across the southern border has become a trickle, disappearing almost as swiftly as it first emerged four years ago…. Read More
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It says a lot about America’s fast fading legacy media establishment leaders that they’ve decided to use up the last shreds of their credibility to glorify censorship…. Read More
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New York is getting its comeuppance. In the four years that Donald Trump was out of office, no state political establishment besides the Biden White… Read More
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Every so many decades, American politics goes through a soft revolution. Some of these moments are more dramatic in scope than others, but they represent a… Read More
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The deep state is sinking, and the Left has decided to go down with the ship. That’s one of the realities that’s perplexing some political commentators… Read More
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The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government has sent shock waves through science institutions around the country. Way… Read More
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If you listen to the Left’s elite opinion makers, you might think that the Trump administration’s current large-scale attempt to reform and reduce the scope of… Read More
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Something truly revolutionary is taking place in Washington. President Donald Trump not only won an election; he’s fundamentally changing the way the federal government does… Read More
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The legacy media’s new freak-out—after they got finished with the “Elon Musk makes Nazi salutes” cycle—is that the new administration is bringing in too many… Read More
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The federal government hasn’t just been wasteful. It’s been funding and organizing toxic projects around the world that have damaged the reputation of the United States. That’s… Read More
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The Trump administration is putting a stick of dynamite under the deep state, and Democrats are apoplectic. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put nearly all… Read More
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President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working. Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the… Read More
EducationCommentary
A day of reckoning has come for higher education. In the past four years, acolytes from America’s most prestigious universities not only continued their project of… Read More
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President Donald Trump on Thursday morning spoke about the midair collision that occurred Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at a press conference… Read More
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America is so back. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a task force to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence,… Read More
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We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the war on history. The Left has waged a decades long effort to fundamentally transform… Read More
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President Donald Trump will sign a Day One executive order mandating that the federal government recognize two sexes, male and female, according to incoming White… Read More
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Acquiring Greenland, or at least more closely partnering with it, is a critical element of President-elect Donald Trump’s shift on American foreign policy. In an… Read More
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President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night. In his speech, Biden touted his record on the economy and his support… Read More
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A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion has damaged the effectiveness of the U.S. military and hurt recruitment numbers. Members of the Senate Armed Services… Read More
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California’s Democrat Party elites are feeling the burn of their own failures to protect their state from devastating, uncontrolled fires. No politician’s reputation has been… Read More
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The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end… Read More
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California prioritizes fighting “toxic masculinity” and promoting DEI instead of fighting wildfires. I hate to appear flippant at a time when Los Angeles is going… Read More
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Have censorship regimes met their match in Elon Musk? As I and many others have written recently, discussion of mass Pakistani rape gangs operating with… Read More
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Donald Trump hasn’t even retaken the office of the presidency yet, and he’s already drastically reshaping American foreign policy. At a Tuesday press conference, which… Read More
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The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked an inquiry into Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s conduct as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service, which was charged with investigating… Read More
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In a year filled with media misses, the biggest collective lie of all not only cost Democrats the election but may have permanently reshaped the… Read More
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“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours.” That was Ronald Reagan’s take on how we should think about the Panama Canal when Americans… Read More
