Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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opinion
WATCH: Subsidized Housing, Price Controls, and ‘Kamala-unism’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dig into the boldest promises from the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance campaigns. It’s a veritable cornucopia of proposed tax cuts, governmental price controls, and every social and economic fantasy in between. Bipartisan support and backlash to these promises have social media and network television spinning. We’ll… -
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Why Michigan Republicans Side With Democrat AG Who Threatened to Prosecute Over Facebook Posts
The Donald Trump-backed candidate for state attorney general says he supports the move by his former opponent—Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat—to threaten to prosecute a GOP township candidate over her Facebook posts. Matthew Deperno, Nessel’s former opponent and the lawyer for Michigan’s Kalamazoo County Republican Party, said Kerry Lynn Elieff likely broke a… -
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Sanctuary Cities for Parental Rights? California City Aims to Protect Families from Radical Gender Policies
The mayor of Huntington Beach, California, is fighting for parental rights despite a recently signed state law requiring schools to conceal students’ gender transitions from parents. Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark introduced an ordinance Aug. 6 to make the Southern California beach town a “Parents’ Right to Know” city. “The state of California is… -
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How Gold Saves the Dollar
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Can we save the dollar before central banking kills it? Yes. It’s surprisingly easy. And, as you might expect, it involves gold. As federal deficits hit 8% of gross domestic product—unprecedented in peacetime—and our national debt hits $35… -
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Why Would a White House Reporter Ask About Muzzling Musk?
This is how much Elon Musk spooks big media. At Monday’s White House press briefing, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if the Biden administration was going to do something to muzzle Musk ahead of the billionaire’s scheduled conversation with Donald Trump via X that evening. After mentioning the impending Musk-Trump interview,… -
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Why More Americans Have Nowhere to Live
The cost of housing rose again last month, making it even more difficult for Americans to afford a home of their own. Inflation is just one of many problems creating a housing crisis in America. On today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” James Burling, a property rights lawyer with more than 40 years of… -
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No Room at ESPN for Women Defending Women’s Sports
Turns out defending women’s sports is a no-go if you want a long career at ESPN. Samantha Ponder, host of “Sunday NFL Countdown,” has been fired, according to The Athletic. Supposedly Ponder, who was reportedly in a three-year, $3 million-plus contract, was axed “for financial reasons, as ESPN nears the conclusion of its fiscal year… -
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1 More Way the Admin’s ‘Green’ Electricity Plan Will Cost Consumers Big: 91,000 Miles of New Transmission Lines
For over a decade, there has been a project proposal to build about 800 miles of transmission lines from Kansas through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana to deliver wind-generated electricity to consumers. However, a recent Aug. 8 ruling by an Illinois court halts the planned construction of lines in that state. This project, known as the… -
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Kamala Harris on Snob Hill
Vice President Kamala Harris visited San Francisco on Sunday to hold a fundraising event at an elitist venue in one of its richest neighborhoods. Her event was at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. If you visit that hotel’s website, you will see that its cheapest room on a weeknight this time of year is… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Swiss Government Took His Daughter to Transition Her. This Father Is Fighting Back.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Her parents had prepared a happy “welcome home” scene for their daughter to return to. Balloons. A nice dinner. Family. Her little brother eagerly awaited her arrival. But when they finally returned home that night from a public hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, their daughter was not with them. “She’s not coming… -
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Distorting the Truth About Native Americans
American kids are now taught that before Christopher Columbus wrecked things, peaceful Native Americans protected the environment. Hollywood movies feed the narrative. Disney’s “Pocahontas” sings, “I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.” Political science professor Wilfred Reilly says that’s ridiculous. “Native American hunters gave names… -
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The Weird, Creepy, Surreal—and Dangerous—2024 Campaign
The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history. Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world: 1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six… -
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NYC on Track to Spend $10 Billion on Illegal Aliens Over 3 Years
New York City plans to spend $4.75 billion on resources for illegal immigrants over the next year, according to the mayor’s office. The city is on track to spend nearly $10 billion on illegal aliens over three years. The Big Apple’s “sanctuary city” laws protect many illegal aliens from deportation, making the city a top destination… -
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WATCH: The Liberal Media Get Overconfident
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a bit of the overconfidence particular media institutions and political campaigns are showing as we count down to just 83 days before the general election on Nov. 5. The polls are spun in positive lights for both campaigns, as historical data is cast aside,… -
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Why Does Every Leading Large Language Model Lean Left Politically?
Large language models are increasingly integrating into everyday life—as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence systems, which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations, can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. Large language models’ growing power and omnipresence mean… -
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Federal Trade Commission’s Self-Defeating War on ‘Big Grocery’
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has announced a new investigation into “Big Grocery” to examine the role “corporate greed” has played in high grocery prices. Khan’s investigation is an election-year stunt to blame high prices on progressive whipping boys instead of government failure. If Khan were serious about lowering grocery prices, she would greenlight… -
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Presidents, Power, Faith, and the Boardroom
I’ve spent a lifetime trying to better discern Jesus’ great parable on the organic tension between God and mammon. I am always smitten with Jesus’ admonition that shrewdness matters profoundly in the navigation of life. Having lived my professional life in Washington, D.C., this tension between the world and Providence seems to come to the fore… -
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Recession Fears Loom as Small Business Job Numbers Tank
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Another domino falls for recession as job creation turns negative for small businesses, which employ nearly half of all Americans. In the past year, payrolls for companies with under 50 employees plunged by nearly 100,000, while job trends… -
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Kamala Harris’ Record on 3 Big Issues Women Care About
The 2024 presidential election is less than three months away. The first debate between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the current vice president, and Republican former President Donald Trump is set for Sept. 10, but you don’t have to wait until then to know where Harris stands on several major issues on the minds of conservative… -
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House Probe of Exit From Afghanistan Lacks Answers and Accountability, Ex-Staffer Says
A House committee is set to release an investigative report on the Biden-Harris administration’s botched exit from Afghanistan, but a former committee staffer contends the probe should have been much tougher. Jerry Dunleavy, a former Washington Examiner reporter and author of the book “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco,” was on the investigative staff…