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Some families in Oklahoma have found themselves bracing for the ongoing culture wars over public school bathroom facilities and the transgender movement—culture wars that have challenged the concepts of equality and discrimination. Parents of young girls at Stillwater Middle School are disturbed that their preteen and teenage daughters are being forced to share a bathroom…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill passed by the Republican-majority Legislature that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando.  This was in response to the company’s current leadership and some of its employees who have protested another bill signed by the governor that prohibits the teaching…

Food prices are continuing to rise at an alarming rate. The 8.8% year-over-year increase (March 2022 compared with March 2021) is the largest in more than 40 years. Over the past seven months, each month’s year-over-year food price increase has been above 4% and each successive month has been higher than the previous month (starting at…

America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s “1984,” and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two million people have crossed the southern border…

Florida lawmakers voted last week to end the Walt Disney Co.’s special self-government privileges, which it never should have received. Since 1967, Disney has operated its own mini-state, surrounded by Florida—much as the Vatican is encircled by Rome. The Reedy Creek Improvement District exempts Disney from certain taxes and regulations that burden other companies. This…

I was in New Haven, Connecticut, this past week for a couple of events at Yale, one of which was a William F. Buckley, Jr. Program debate for a primarily college-age audience on “common good conservatism.” During the debate, I argued on behalf of the more “muscular,” more forceful, and less “liberal” approach to political…

Matthew Continetti, a journalist and historian of American conservatism, is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He joins this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his new book “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.” Continetti’s book covers the history of American conservatism stretching back to the 1920s and…

America’s partnership with Uzbekistan has become more relevant than ever. This former Soviet state is an ally against Russia, has an emerging market-based economy, and possesses significantly undervalued natural assets. Capital Tashkent’s relationship with Washington entered what has been called “a new era of strategic partnership” during President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s historic first visit to the…

Asked whether he would heed calls from a growing number of congressional Democrats to continue turning away migrants at the border due to concerns about COVID-19, President Joe Biden told reporters, “There’s going to be an appeal by the Justice Department.” Huh? The president later cleaned up his own mess, clarifying that the Justice Department will appeal a federal judge’s…