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
Hey, Elon Musk, You May Have a ‘Deep State’ Problem
The New York Times raised questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness after the bombshell special report explaining why there would be no criminal charges against Biden for unlawful possession of documents. Special counsel Robert Hur wrote, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as… -
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Antidepressant Prescriptions for Adolescent Girls Spiked During COVID-19, Research Shows
Antidepressant prescriptions for young girls skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published by the American Academy of Pediatrics Monday. Among young women aged 12 to 17, the rate of prescriptions jumped 129.6% per month after March 2020 and for women aged 18 to 25, it rose to 56.5% per month, the research shows. In March… -
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Is Biden’s Fitness to Stand Trial Relevant to His Ability to be President? What This Psychiatrist Has to Say
President Joe Biden’s fitness to stand trial and his fitness to serve as president are not comparable standards, the forensic psychiatrist who led the movement to oust Donald Trump from the presidency via the 25th Amendment contends. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts… -
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Are We Treating Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?
A few months ago, a high school teacher casually mentioned to me that at his school, students with diagnosed anxiety weren’t called on in class. What struck me as insanity is apparently mainstream in America’s schools now. In her gripping new book “Bad Therapy,” journalist Abigail Shrier chronicles how young Americans are living a childhood… -
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The Uniparty Is Only a Few Steps Away From Gutting the US Dollar
America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made clear when Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the Russian strongman President Vladimir Putin, who clearly articulated how the uniparty in Washington is destroying America’s greatest strategic and economic asset—her currency. Last year, led by the chairman and ranking member of the… -
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Sen. Ron Johnson, Health Experts Allege Cover-Up of COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers
Two weeks ago, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., got an email from a recently married man who learned his 36-year-old wife couldn’t have children shortly after she got her second COVID-19 shot. “She chose career, got the baby/family bug, and now she can’t have children,” the husband said in the email, which Johnson read aloud Monday… -
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To Squelch Trump’s Criticism of Him, NY Prosecutor Seeks Gag Order
Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg of Manhattan, New York, has petitioned to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump. Trump was indicted by Bragg on April 4, 2023, on 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records related to his alleged payments of “hush money” to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known by her stage… -
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Heritage Foundation Lawsuit Over Prince Harry’s Visa Goes to Court
“I wouldn’t protect him. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” former President Donald Trump said about British Prince Harry in an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Saturday. The Duke of Sussex has been in hot water over his visa to stay in… -
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Phone Records Could Get Fani Willis Disbarred, Jailed, Legal Experts Say
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s cell phone data suggests that he and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have lied on the witness stand about their romantic relationship, opening them up to consequences greater than disqualification from the racketeering case the couple brought against former President Donald Trump, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky AG Investigates Company at Center of $200,000 Payment to Bidens
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Kentucky’s attorney general is investigating a health care company that wired $200,000 to James Biden the same day he wrote a check for that amount to his brother and future president Joe Biden. James Biden worked as a consultant for Americore Holdings LLC, a Florida-based hospital chain that later collapsed. Americore… -
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Sorry, Politico: You Don’t Get to Rewrite the Declaration of Independence
Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, a finalist for journalism’s Pulitzer Prize, thinks she knows the Christian faith better than practicing Christians—and, for that matter, the Declaration of Independence. In an appearance Friday on MSNBC, Przybyla said “Christian nationalists” aren’t to be trusted because, in her words, they don’t believe their rights come from any human or… -
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What Federal Health Agencies Aren’t Disclosing About COVID-19 Vaccines
For more than two years, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has pushed federal health agencies for more information about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines—and about the agencies’ efforts to censor criticism. Johnson said it was “beyond despicable,” for example, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could be “actively hiding information about vaccine safety signals… -
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Blue Laws for Red Citizens
One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from former President Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving plaintiff E…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Women’s Sports Leaders Call on New York Collegiate League to Protect Fairness as Male Sets League Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Independent Council on Women’s Sports sent a letter to the Liberty League, an intercollegiate athletic conference in New York, demanding that the league adopt new rules to protect fairness for female athletes as a male set school records in women’s track. ICONS—a network and advocacy group that spans all levels… -
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Trump’s Legal Cases 101: Where They Stand
Former President Donald Trump is still facing multiple legal cases against him, including federal charges. In Manhattan, Trump is looking at felony charges over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has accused Trump of seeking to interfere with the results of the 2020 election…. -
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Too Many Corporations, Like Universities, Have Lost Their Way
Universities are not alone among our institutions that have lost their way. How about America’s corporations, which now seem to think social justice is their job, besides efficiently delivering goods and services to the American public? In a recent panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Institute, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the… -
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Psychologist Punished for Questioning VA’s Gender Ideology Initiatives: ‘What Has Happened to Women’s Security?’
A psychologist employed by a federal agency is being penalized for speaking out against gender ideology. Three psychologists working in the Department of Veterans Affairs penned an op-ed late last month warning of the danger posed by allowing biological men to access women’s bathrooms and medical exam rooms. One of the authors, primary care psychologist Dr…. -
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San Francisco Put a Noncitizen in Office. This Is Part of the Left’s Plan to Demolish Our Republic.
California is once again leading the way, showing us the dark, dystopian post-America future that awaits us if the Left remains in power. The latest absurdity is that a noncitizen was appointed to office in San Francisco, the first time such a thing has happened in this country. According to the New York Post, Kelly… -
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Gender Ideologues Stack Deck on WHO Panel on Trans ‘Health’
A who’s who of transgender activists was scheduled this week to meet in Geneva at the World Health Organization to develop new guidelines on “the health of trans and gender-diverse people.” We can presume the meeting took place, even though public notice of it didn’t appear on the U.N. website listing meetings and conferences. Until… -
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The World’s Hostility Toward Conservatism Is Empowering Conservatives to Fight Back
The work of a statesman is to identify a problem that no one else has seen and courageously step forward to fix it, said the author of the book “Gateway to Statesmanship.” John Burtka is the president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, commonly known as “ISI,” an organization cofounded by William F. Buckley Jr. that…