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Men Play Large Role in Women’s Abortion Decision, Study Finds
Men play a critical role in determining whether a woman chooses to have an abortion, according to a Care Net survey released last week. “You can’t be serious about ending abortion unless you are serious about engaging men on the issue,” said Roland Warren, president and CEO of Care Net, a network of Christian crisis-pregnancy… -
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Harvard’s Method of Discrimination Is Affront to Individual Dignity
In a move that may finally put an end to race-conscious admissions, the Supreme Court accepted a petition to hear Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard on Jan 24. The case was filed by a group of Asian Americans who allege, with strong evidence, discrimination by the nation’s most prestigious school, for reasons related to… -
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By Ditching Spotify Over Joe Rogan, Neil Young Embraces ‘The Man’
Spotify is facing a musical mutiny. Joni Mitchell and The E Street Band’s Nils Lofgren have joined fellow classic-rock musician Neil Young in pulling their music off the platform because they don’t agree with controversial podcast host Joe Rogan. Young last week demanded that the music streaming service remove Rogan’s podcast, citing what he called… -
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Chicago Schools Tell Teachers Sex Is ‘Socially Constructed,’ Tell Them to Hide Students’ Gender Pronouns From Parents
A Chicago Public Schools training program tells teachers that sex is a “socially constructed” phenomenon and instructs them to hide students’ gender pronouns from their parents, Fox News reported. Chicago Public Schools told teachers that “gender and sex” are social constructs that have been “created and enforced” by society and threatened retaliatory measures if they… -
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First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice Could Be… a Man?
President Joe Biden has made clear he will keep his promise to elect the first black woman to the Supreme Court, following Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. But in a curious tweet announcing he will pick someone with excellent qualifications, he said, “And they will be the first black woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court.” They? … -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Bill Would Require Abortionists to Report Suspected Trafficking Victims
Legislation proposed by Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina would require abortion providers to file a report with the National Human Trafficking Hotline if they suspect a patient at the clinic is a victim of human trafficking. The Daily Signal first obtained a copy of the legislation, the Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act of… -
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How to Protect Your Kids From Internet Porn: There’s an App for That
As a parent of three kids, including two boys who are obsessed with the latest technology, I know how challenging it can be to keep tabs on what they’re doing on the internet. So, when I recently heard about Canopy, I immediately wanted to talk to Sean Clifford, its CEO. Canopy is an app that… -
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We Hear You: Tracking Religious Objectors to Vaccine Mandates and Protecting the Unborn
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience continues to respond to our reporting on the Biden administration's tracking of federal employees who apply for an exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: We as Americans should all be disturbed by this trend reported by Sarah… -
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Vaccine Mandate ‘Feels Like Coercion,’ Says Boston Teacher Who Fears Being Fired
Special needs teacher Angela Jones could be fired from her job with the Boston school system. Why? Because she is unvaccinated. Jones teaches elementary students in Boston Public Schools, where she has taught for nearly 20 years. She says she is one of more than 400 teachers there who have declined to take a COVID-19… -
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Meet Alvin Bragg, Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Manhattan
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement; prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and… -
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IRS Demands Smack of Big Brother
Surveys find 81% of U.S. adults support voter ID requirements. Yet President Joe Biden recently condemned state election integrity laws that strengthen voter ID protections and ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls as “Jim Crow 2.0.” This supposed “threat to our democracy” is so grave that Biden equated those who support the laws with… -
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Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court finally granted a writ of certiorari in two now-consolidated affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. The cases will be jointly argued during the next Supreme Court term, and they place directly in their crosshairs the… -
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It’s Not Government’s Job to ‘Root Out’ Misinformation
After being asked by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski about the alleged misinformation spread by the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast and Facebook users, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded with a homily about how “we” must “root out” misleading speech. “We” don’t have to do any such thing. Government officials have no role in dictating appropriate… -
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Pension Agency Latest to Track Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
The federal agency overseeing government pensions on Friday became the latest agency to create a rule for keeping records on employees who seek medical exemptions from the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. placed a proposed rule on the Federal Register about keeping records of staff who request medical exemptions to… -
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Fight Crime: Arm America’s Citizens
America’s surge in grotesque, random mayhem has become a coast-to-coast crime epic. Some examples: •Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and 10 other cities set new murder records last year. Democrats control all 12 locales. •Police accuse Shawn Laval Smith, a violent “homeless” man, of fatally stabbing UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer on Jan. 13 while she worked in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Extend Child Tax Credit to Unborn Babies
Republicans in Congress are introducing legislation aimed at recognizing the humanity of an unborn child by allowing pregnant mothers to claim tax credits on their unborn babies, The Daily Signal has learned. Introduced Friday by Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, and Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, the Child Tax Credit for… -
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Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics
Larry Fink has emerged as the point man for environmental, social, and corporate governance capitalism, broadly known as ESG. As chief executive officer of BlackRock, which holds a $10 trillion global portfolio, Fink leverages this immense power to compel companies that BlackRock invests in to comply with an aggressive climate change and diversity agenda in… -
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Despite What They Say, Public Schools Have Plenty of Funding
Editor’s note: Jan. 23-29 is National School Choice Week. This is the last of a five-part series of commentaries exploring the successes and challenges of educational choice and the people fighting to make it available to all American schoolchildren. As we conclude National School Choice Week 2022, people around Washington state are about to hear… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem Criticizes Biden’s Promise to Pick Supreme Court Justice Based on Race, Gender: ‘What Mattered Was Working Hard’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem criticized President Joe Biden Thursday for his decision to pick a Supreme Court justice based on race and gender. “I think that’s very unfortunate that he chose that approach,” the Republican governor said in a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal. “It almost divides people based on what they look… -
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Here’s What US Can Do to Weaken Moscow-Beijing Partnership
One dangerous response to the Ukraine crisis is that the U.S. should make nice with the Russians so they can either help, or at least not distract from, dealing with the threat from China, or at the very least find a way to keep Moscow and Beijing from ganging up on the U.S. This is…