Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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A Journalist’s Profile in Courage
Earlier this month, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation sent out emails soliciting nominations for its 2023 Profile in Courage Awards, to be presented Oct. 29 at an annual awards gala. The yearly awards honor “individuals who demonstrate politically courageous leadership in the spirit of ‘Profiles in Courage,’” the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1956 book of the…Peter Parisi -
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How the Left Captured the Newest Smithsonian Museums
That leftists have accomplished a very successful march through the institutions is a fact of life. But how did they achieve it? The ongoing saga of the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum can serve as a classic case study of how the Left conquered the commanding heights of the culture. Spoiler alert—here’s how it always happens: Determined…Mike Gonzalez -
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‘Bidenomics’ Has Been a Disaster
After 40 years of “trickle-down economics,” President Joe Biden says, “Bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the American dream.” It’s not often that a politician openly pledges to bring the country back to a time of crippling inflation, high energy prices, and stifling interest rates. But this president is doing his best to…David Harsanyi -
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The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities
The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag. “If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level…Jarrett Stepman -
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Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant—Leo Amery, a polymath and…Victor Davis Hanson -
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FBI Veteran Corroborates IRS Whistleblower Account of Investigators’ Tipoff to Hunter Biden
A former FBI supervisory special agent who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation corroborated assertions by two IRS whistleblowers that FBI headquarters tipped off the Secret Service and the Biden presidential transition team about investigative plans, according to a new transcript. The transcript released Monday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee compounds questionable investigative…Fred Lucas -
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Tennessee Mayor’s ‘Hate’ Council Strategized With Far-Left Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Tennessee's third-largest city launched a council to oppose "hate" and "extremism" in 2018, and that council has repeatedly collaborated with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits "hate groups," putting them on a "hate map" alongside the Ku Klux Klan….Tyler O’Neil -
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Abraham Lincoln’s Painful Message for the Pro-Life Movement
Pro-lifers waited 49 grueling years to see the judicial barbarism of Roe v. Wade finally overturned in last year’s blockbuster Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling, delivered by Justice Samuel Alito, merely re-politicized a hotly contested issue that had been erroneously accorded the status of “constitutional right” in Roe. Unfortunately, it seems perhaps…Josh Hammer -
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Of the Many Factors Behind the Maui Wildfires, Climate Change Was Not One, Experts Say
As catastrophic wildfires engulf the Hawaiian island of Maui, some media outlets and politicians quickly jumped at the opportunity to blame the disaster on the man-made phenomenon of climate change. The Associated Press distributed an article quoting Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, as saying that “climate…Elise McCue -
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Beverly Hills Wants Rabbi’s In-Home Religious Gatherings to Cease and Desist. He’s Not Budging.
A rabbi in Beverly Hills is fighting for his First Amendment rights after the Los Angeles suburb sent him a “notice of violations,” seeking to prevent him from holding Jewish services in his home. The nonprofit First Liberty Institute and the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which represent Rabbi Levi Illulian, sent a…Gigi De La Torre -
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As Trials Near, Pro-Life Activists Demand Repeal of Unequally Enforced FACE Act
Jury selection began Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trials of the first five of 10 pro-life activists indicted under the FACE Act. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services,” according to the Department of Justice. The activists,…Elise McCue -
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Gender Zealots Out to Cancel Politicians, Religious Leaders for Speaking Truth
Two politicians from Mexico traveled last week to Washington, D.C., to share chilling stories of how their left-wing government is punishing them for speaking out against gender ideology. The politicians, Rodrigo Iván Cortés and Gabriel Quadri, criticized Mexico’s ruling party, the Movement for Social Regeneration (or Morena), which runs a government with a totalitarian streak….Grace Melton -
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Don’t Defend Planned Parenthood’s ‘Gender-Affirming Care.’ Defund It.
In post-Roe America, Planned Parenthood is shifting gears. To make up for its lost abortion revenue, it’s expanding its reach into what it calls “transgender hormone therapy.” The recent spike in these services is telling. According to their most recent annual reports, most of the nearly 600 Planned Parenthood centers now dispense cross-sex hormones. In…Melanie Israel -
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First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.
First, they came for pizza ovens. Now, they’re coming for ice cream trucks. New York City Democrats have decided to take down what they’ve identified as the city’s—make that, the planet’s—biggest threat. If you thought that meant that they were finally going to go hard after crime or ditch Manhattan’s soft-on-crime district attorney, Alvin Bragg,…Jarrett Stepman -
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‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’
GREENBELT, Md.—Muslim and Christian parents protested Wednesday outside the U.S. District Court of Maryland two hours before the court would hear arguments about the Montgomery County school district's refusal to allow them to opt their children out of the LGBTQ book curriculum “Pride Storybooks." Grace Morrison, a Catholic mother who has a daughter with Down…Gigi De La Torre -
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House Panel Hears From Gender Medicine’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ on His Insane Surgical Option for Minors
Light may be breaking through the darkness of gender ideology, as revealed by a recent hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on “due process violations and gender-affirming care.” During the hearing, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., showed part of a video interview with Dr. Blair Peters, who performs transgender surgeries on minors and adults at Oregon Health…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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How That ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change Was ‘Manufactured’
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.” She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change….John Stossel -
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Pop Star Doubles Down on Opposing Gender Transitions for Children
A pop star is doubling down on comments blasting parents who allow their children to undergo gender-transition procedures. In a Saturday night interview on VladTV, singer-songwriter Ne-Yo addressed the transgender agenda, explaining, “I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman, and there wasn’t but two…S.A. McCarthy -
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To Protect ‘Dignity’ of Homosexuals, Court Must ‘Exclude’ Bible Tweet ‘From Freedom of Expression,’ Finland Prosecutor Argues
A member of Finland's parliament will appear in court later this month, again facing "hate speech" charges for a tweet citing Bible verses, more than a year after a district court dismissed the charges against her. Prosecutors appealed the Helsinki District Court's unanimous March 2022 ruling clearing Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish parliament…Tyler O’Neil -
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How Feminist Movement Drew Ideology From the Occult
The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the feminist movement, author Carrie Gress says. Ideas of the “the occult, smashing the patriarchy, and free love” played a significant role in Shelley’s writing and ideology, says Gress, author of the new…Virginia Allen