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‘Build Back Better’ Plan Would Make Medicaid Bigger With Less Flexibility, Accountability
A lot of transformative health care policy is embedded in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill, including continuation of the Biden administration’s campaign to strip away state flexibility and consolidate greater federal control over Medicaid. Medicaid, the joint federal-state program to provide health care services to certain low-income Americans, has seen an explosion in… -
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The Erasure of ‘Women’ Is Escalating
The campaign to erase references to women has reached new levels of absurdity. In just the last few weeks, it’s made forays into social media, medical journals, and even federal legislation. For example, if you’ve spent much time on social media lately, you’ve likely seen the ACLU’s edits of a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg… -
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Schools Group That Urged Attorney General’s Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions
The National School Boards Association, which urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents who speak out on local education matters as potential domestic terrorists, has political ties to the Democratic Party and labor unions. The national association represents members of locally elected school boards, which usually are officially nonpartisan, and… -
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American Principles Project Back on YouTube After Backlash Ends Censorship
YouTube temporarily “terminated” the American Principles Project’s YouTube channel over Columbus Day weekend, contending that the pro-family organization had violated its terms of service by reuploading content from a “previously terminated channel.” Following backlash from conservatives and lawmakers, YouTube reinstated the American Principles Project’s account Tuesday. Google told The Daily Signal that the decision to… -
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Federal Judge Rules New York Must Provide Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that New York must recognize health care workers’ religious exemptions to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge David Hurd ruled on Tuesday that the mandate conflicts with “individuals’ federally protected right to seek a religious accommodation from their individual employers,” granting a preliminary injunction… -
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Dropping ‘F’ Grades for Kids Creates New ‘Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations’
“Groupthink is the enemy of rigor … what we define to be excellence has become captive to a certain political agenda,” says Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury. Yet, in the name of “eliminating systemic racism,” Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, near St. Paul, will no longer hand out “F” grades to students who… -
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In the Fight for Racial Justice, Equality of Opportunity, Not Elitism, Should Be the Goal
The cause of “racial justice” is more popular than ever before. But even its most vocal progressive advocates don’t seem to know what it is they’re fighting for anymore. At the beginning of the civil rights movement, we fought to open doors that had been closed to us by law. We wanted to end the… -
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China Will Test America on Taiwan. What Will Joe Biden Do?
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has risen to unprecedented levels over the last few months. Chinese warplanes have breached Taiwan’s air defense zone more than 150 times in just this last week. Given the stakes, and rather ambiguous assurances from the U.S. regarding Taiwan’s security, what happens when Beijing tries to test U.S. resolve? The current Taiwan Relations Act does not provide… -
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Restoring Fortitude in the American People
Freedom is a worthwhile goal, most would agree. Crucially and more specifically, freedom with responsibility is a worthwhile goal. A libertine society where anything goes and consequences are ignored is less American-style freedom and more a scene from an Antifa-led autonomous zone. The American founding is based on ordered liberty. Our sense of liberty is… -
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On Its 246th Birthday, the Navy Continues to Innovate
As the U.S. Navy celebrates its 246th birthday on Oct. 13, it is an apt time to reflect on its accomplishments of the past year. Judging by those accomplishments, innovation should be the theme of the Navy’s 245th year. Just like wireless radio and nuclear-powered technologies, reliable unmanned warships are on the cusp of becoming… -
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Black Professor: Blacks Who Reject Critical Race Theory Being ‘Erased’
Blacks who don’t adopt the doctrines of victimhood or critical social justice erode the narrative promoted by woke activists, Erec Smith, a professor of rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Free Black Thought, says. “The illogic that is inherent in a lot of anti-racist activism … is absurd,” Smith says. Smith doesn’t… -
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State School Board Groups Disavow National Entity’s Call for DOJ to Investigate Parents
At least 11 state school board organizations are distancing themselves from a National School Boards Association letter asking President Joe Biden to take action against parents protesting progressive school policies. School board organizations in Virginia and Louisiana criticized the national association’s letter in public statements earlier this month, saying they were not consulted on it and suggesting that the National School Boards Association discourages the “active participation” of parents in school governance…. -
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Democrats’ Destructive Spending Spree Would Turn America Into a European Social Welfare State
Capitol Hill staffers are working around the clock to hammer into some twisted shape a spending bill that warring factions of the Democratic Party will support in their goal to transform America. The cradle-to-grave subsidies in the 2,448-page, $3.5 trillion spending bill that Democrats in Congress are crafting will create a welfare trap for millions… -
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Lawsuit Alleges Cronyism at Biden EPA to ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Green Agenda
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is violating the law in a “purge” of advisory committees in order to “rubber-stamp” regulations, a lawsuit alleges, and in the process sweeping away a Trump administration policy against conflicts of interest. The lead plaintiff in the case is Stanley Young, who in March was ousted from the EPA’s… -
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More Bad Policies and Government Spending Will Worsen Labor Shortage
The September employment report released on Oct. 8 showed a modest employment gain, with 194,000 new jobs added, and a drop in unemployment from 5.2% in August to 4.8%. What appears to be good news in the report—a 0.4 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate to 4.8%—is not all positive news. The decline is… -
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The New Victim of Cancel Culture: Science
Cancel culture has reared its ugly head once again, and this time in a new and unprecedented way. A lecture by a physicist was canceled at one of America’s premier institutions of science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for reasons having nothing to do with the subject of the lecture. The lecture was canceled not because… -
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North Carolina’s No. 2 Official Stands by Referring to Teaching Transgenderism, Homosexuality as ‘Filth’
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican, announced in a Saturday video message that he “will not back down” in his fight against “transgenderism, homosexuality,” or “any of that filth” in America’s public schools. Robinson has been called on to resign over comments he made regarding transgenderism and homosexuality in public schools during a June speech… -
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How to Save Freedom: Discourse, Debate Good Places to Start
Discourse and debate promote a free society, says Inez Feltscher Stepman, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and host of the “High Noon” podcast. Stepman, who has worked in education policy for more than a decade, is concerned about the rise of groupthink in America. Societies become vulnerable to totalitarianism when citizens are… -
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‘We Have to Reassert Citizenship’: Victor Davis Hanson’s Challenge to Americans
What does it mean to be an American citizen today? Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at California State University, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about citizenship and other topics covered in his new book “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are… -
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Podcast: The Legacy of Columbus
The controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus has spanned decades. To some, Columbus serves as a symbol of bloodthirsty colonial expansion, a petty tyrant hellbent on pillaging native lands. To others, Columbus is a misunderstood and unjustified target of anti-American scorn who should be praised for his tolerance and kindness. Jarrett Stepman, a Daily Signal contributor and…