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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Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally Thursday in Phoenix, making a finish-line pitch to voters in a key swing state ahead of next Tuesday’s… Read More
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The polls must be looking bad for Democrats because they appear to be restarting their campaign to abolish the Electoral College. A few left-wing journalists… Read More
The era of Me Too is dead and gone. The age of ignoring women who are politically inconvenient to the Left has come. Or maybe… Read More
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American elites really have become a toxic, ideological class apart—even if they don’t want to admit it. A recent survey by Scott Rasmussen called “Elite… Read More
Whistleblowers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have come forward in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to accuse the agency of misappropriating funds and generally… Read More
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The traditional TV networks continue to offer obvious home-field advantages to Democrats in this year’s election debates, as they have for as long as I’ve… Read More
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Why is it we hear the loudest shrieks for democracy coming from those who most clearly want to remove all limits to their own power… Read More
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Vice President Kamala Harris completed her second whole interview of her mostly cloistered presidential campaign Wednesday night. Frankly, it was an embarrassment for American corporate… Read More
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The illegal immigration crisis at the southern border has not only created a culture of lawlessness at the Southern border, it has also adversely affected… Read More
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“To the autoworkers in Michigan, Georgia, and all other parts of our country, I am pinpointing you for greatness,” former President Donald Trump said in… Read More
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By a miracle, really a series of miracles, former President Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts in little more than two months. The implications of… Read More
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For the second time in just over two months, a gunman has attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump. “The FBI has responded to West Palm… Read More
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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby wrote Wednesday that there is “no use responding” to a “handful of vets” involved in the Afghanistan… Read More
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A small city in western Ohio has become a focal point of discussions about the mass immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration. At Tuesday night’s… Read More
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ABC’s debate moderators’ performance in Tuesday night’s presidential debate made CNN’s performance in June look like a master class in fairness, objectivity, and balance. It… Read More
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off Tuesday night for their first, and possibly only, debate before the Nov. 5 presidential… Read More
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The censorship regime that threatens Europe has crossed the Atlantic and has landed in the New World. Brazil became the latest example of a reputed… Read More
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ very first interview of her campaign aired on CNN Thursday night. We waited a month and a half for this and Harris’ much anticipated… Read More
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Robin DiAngelo, the pro-DEI author of the bestselling book “White Fragility,” is a fraud. She’s also been accused of rampantly plagiarizing minority scholars in a… Read More
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“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States, and yet lands only in Europe.” That was author Tom Wolfe way back… Read More
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The Democratic Party has fully embraced the far-left’s ideological framework of America. Democrats released their 2024 party platform this week during the Democratic National Convention…. Read More
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Editor’s Note: Protests are building at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In May, The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman wrote a short history of the… Read More
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Our increasingly imperial executive branch has become the center of American politics as the presidency itself shrinks into irrelevancy. It is a dangerous dynamic that… Read More
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, in office for just over a year, announced Wednesday that she would resign her position amid continuing backlash over anti-Israel… Read More
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“The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert.” That’s the first line of Time magazine’s adulatory profile of Vice President Kamala Harris, titled “Her Hope,” or in… Read More
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Since Vice President Kamala Harris’ coronation as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, much of the media has been laser-focused on her “vibes.” They are frantically… Read More
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The Left has let the mask slip and made clear that it intends to pack or otherwise decimate the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden announced… Read More
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The San Francisco Bay Area represents a microcosm of California’s mockable form of untethered-from-reality leftism. That matters for America in 2024. Not only is Democrats’… Read More
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If Democrats win big in November, you should probably expect them to seek to pack the Supreme Court with their partisans. President Joe Biden endorsed… Read More
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Who is most likely to replace President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket now that he has stepped aside in the presidential… Read More
