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The American Constitutional Rights Union just began a petition to ask America’s policymakers to put an end to the toppling and defacing of the nation’s monuments. Statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Albert Pike are among those vandalized since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Lori Roman, president of the American Constitutional Rights…

A man drove his car last Saturday onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” Over the weekend, news outlets…

Controversy makes news and newspapers sell news—or sometimes just controversy. With racial tensions already running high, a recent essay in The New York Times Magazine further stoked the fires of division by proclaiming racial protests to be a “defining tradition of this country” and insisting that reparations are necessary to achieve equality. This is the latest installment…

One name that goes conspicuously unmentioned by those self-proclaimed champions of racial justice such as Black Lives Matters is an internationally acclaimed American hero who lived his life for racial equality. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his life for it, too. King’s quest for equality and his legacy are inconvenient for today’s vigilantes because his…

Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On June 30, he completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930. As part of the great black migration northward during…

The Supreme Court on June 29 held that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the constitutional separation of powers but held that its unconstitutional structure can be fixed without scrapping the entire agency. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which, among other things, created the bureau to administer and enforce a…

There is no easy answer to America’s racial and political divide. But one thing is clear, healing in America will require both the church and government leaders taking action to build bridges in our nation.  “Silence is not an option. Complacency makes us complicit,” the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership…

Will Ford and Matt Lockett, authors of “The Dream King: How the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. Is Being Fulfilled to Heal Racism in America,” met at a prayer meeting in 2005. Ford and Lockett spent 10 years developing a strong friendship and praying together for racial reconciliation. A decade into their friendship, Lockett…

The Trump White House is moving ahead to implement needed reforms and institute more opportunities for minority communities to succeed and overcome challenges.  Ashley D. Bell, White House policy adviser for entrepreneurship and innovation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to explain how the president is taking steps to strengthen underserved communities economically and institute needed…

Sound public health policy is sound public health policy, regardless of the political moment. The effectiveness of a public health measure is contingent on the cooperation of the public, and the cooperation of the public is contingent on the public’s trust. As such, it’s catastrophically destructive to the goals of public health to support participation…