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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President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this… Read More
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In the darkest doldrums of one of the feeblest, yet imperious presidencies it very much appeared that literally every positive symbol of America’s past would… Read More
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It’s now obvious why NPR’s CEO didn’t show up to defend her taxpayer-funded network at a congressional hearing last year. On Wednesday, National Public Radio’s… Read More
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Are we to be a nation ruled by one man? I’m not talking about President Donald Trump, I’m talking about district court judges who increasingly… Read More
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The Trump administration continues to push hard to acquire Greenland and for good reason. On Sunday the White House announced that second lady Usha Vance would be… Read More
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The Trump administration is routing DEI regimes on college campuses. The University of California announced Wednesday that it would drop diversity statement requirements when hiring… Read More
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The summer of joy is long over. After the Democrat Party’s attritional winter of defeats, we are seeing the Left spring into action in the worst possible… Read More
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It seems that wokeness in its most toxic and obnoxious forms has been forced into retreat here in America, but in the England, it’s apparently… Read More
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The New York Times’ mea culpa about how “we” were misled about the lab leak theory and much else during the COVID-19 lockdowns is a day late,… Read More
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Acquiring Greenland remains a priority for the Trump administration, and there are signs that a deal may be inching closer to happening. You may have… Read More
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The California bullet train to nowhere keeps going nowhere and the Trump administration might finally pull the emergency break. The California High Speed Rail project is no… Read More
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The cultural “vibe shift” to the Right is real, but the Left continues to have a firm grip on the Democrat Party. As many Democrat wannabe influencers… Read More
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The American Bar Association is the latest elite institution that’s expending the last fumes of its credibility on behalf of the Left. The ABA recently… Read More
EducationCommentary
A reckoning is coming for higher education. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would pull $400 million in grants from Columbia University on Title IV… Read More
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The Democrat Party is controlled by the woke Left and one seismic election loss isn’t going to change that. Right now, they are in chaos… Read More
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America desperately needs to make shipbuilding great again. President Donald Trump announced in his Tuesday night address to Congress that he will sign an executive order creating… Read More
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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump demonstrated the exact qualities that allowed him to walk past a failing legacy media establishment and right back into… Read More
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I’ve had enough. This really needs to be said. History abuse must stop. If you’ve paid attention to the news recently, it’s been hard not… Read More
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The Trump administration is swiftly bringing about some level of “normalcy” to the border, and it’s already having a significant impact around the country. One… Read More
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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
