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
The Timing of Biden’s Cancer Announcement Is Suspicious
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We had a bombshell report this week that former President Joe Biden—not more than, oh, 100-plus… -
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FDA to Set Higher Bar for Clinical Trials for New COVID-19 Booster Shots
The Food and Drug Administration will issue guidelines requiring clinical trials prior to the approval of new COVID-19 boosters, a spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Signal. The FDA’s new framework for vaccine approvals will prioritize high-risk populations while requiring gold-standard clinical data for individuals under 65 at low risk of COVID-19, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the… -
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AP’s Shift to the Left Coincides With Support From Leftist Donors
Much has been made of The Associated Press getting the boot from the White House. It’s even sparked a protracted legal battle between AP and the Trump administration. The AP’s sudden difficulty getting access to the president has been a long time coming as the news organization has drifted strongly to the left in recent years. What’s equally important… -
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Elite Law Firms in Trouble With Civil Rights Law Again
The nation’s elite law firms are on the wrong side of the nation’s civil rights laws again. In March, many of those firms received letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanding information about their allegedly racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. In April, several of those firms settled with the EEOC and promised not… -
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Scalise Delivers Apocalyptic Message on GOP Mega Bill
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise suggested the stakes for passing the House version of the budget reconciliation package are nothing short of apocalyptic. “You didn’t come up here to vote no and let America crash and burn,” Scalise said of his message to members still holding out on a deal. Fresh from the House GOP’s… -
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Fact-Checking Justice Sotomayor’s Imaginary Birthright Citizenship Cases
Last week, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a case that stems from President Donald Trump’s January executive order on birthright citizenship. At this point in the litigation, the court isn’t addressing the constitutionality of the order itself, but instead will resolve an important procedural question over the power of… -
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Comey’s ‘8647’ Post Opened Floodgates for ‘Copycat’ Threats Against Public Figures, FBI Says
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A social media post from former FBI Director James Comey aimed at President Donald Trump has sparked threats to other public figures, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said. Law enforcement brought Comey in for questioning on Friday after he posted a picture on Instagram of seashells spelling out “8647,” which is understood in internet slang as a call… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New SBA Database Aims to Boost Supply Chains to ‘Make Onshoring Great Again’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration has launched a new tool to help small businesses identify American manufacturers and producers. Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler on Tuesday announced a “Make Onshoring Great Again” portal, which will feature a database of more than 1 million American suppliers. “The SBA is proud to support President… -
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Rubio Warns During Hearing of Possible New ‘Full-Scale Civil War’ in Syria
Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and defended government reforms from attacks by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. Broadly addressing the shake-up at both the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rubio said that the agencies were soliciting comments during a… -
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Florida Appeals Court Puts Parental Rights Where They Belong
School districts across the country require parental notice or consent before minors may go on a field trip or even receive a cough drop. But for years, the Supreme Court said that those same minors have a constitutional right to get an abortion with minimal, if any, parental involvement. Now, the legal tables may have… -
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Why This Republican Lawmaker Is a ‘No’ for Now on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Texas Republican Rep. Keith Self would vote against his party’s budget reconciliation bill as it currently stands. “I am a 'no' at the moment,” he told The Daily Signal. Months in the making, the bill would extend President Donald Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts and fulfill campaign promises, such as fully funding border security. But… -
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There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
What is the greatest love of all? As Whitney Houston sang, it’s “Learning to love yourself.” To poet Eman Awad, the greatest love is “The feeling i feel but i don’t understand.” “No greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” according to the Gospel of… -
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Biden’s Presidency Is a Scandal of Historic Proportions
The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy. On Friday, Axios released Friday night news dump audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur…. -
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‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’
Following up on a story we shared with you on April 25, more states are looking for their own “DOGE,” or Department of Government Efficiency. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a “DOGE task force” to audit spending, cut bureaucracy, and eliminate DEI programs. Earlier this year, the Georgia Senate passed a bill aimed at… -
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Grounded by Bureaucracy: Trump’s Chance to Ditch the Feds, Commercialize the Skies
Air travel in America isn’t great—and that’s putting it lightly. Our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems cost Americans tens of billions of dollars annually. That includes tens of thousands of years of lost time annually due to flight delays and cancellations, as well as higher prices caused by preventable limits on the supply of… -
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With Michael Ledeen Gone, the World Lost One of Its Great Minds
The world has lost a towering intellect, a fearless thinker, and a deeply principled man. Michael Ledeen’s passing on May 18 marks the end of an era in which ideas were not just debated but lived, tested, and acted upon. The list of problems Michael solved over his 83 years was impressive, but it pales… -
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Abigail Spanberger Is No Moderate
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger is busy trying to portray herself as a moderate, but her policy record proves she’s far from that. With a 5% lifetime score on the Heritage Action for America scorecard, Spanberger spent six years in Congress voting for policies like restricting economic freedom, weakening U.S. border security, and blocking voter… -
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Attorneys Fight ‘Censorship, Plain and Simple’ Over Reparative Therapy Bans
First Amendment advocates appeared in court this week to overturn two laws aimed at trapping minors in the LGBTQ lifestyle by barring counselors from having consensual discussions with children who do not want to identify as transgender. Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom sued Kansas City, Missouri, and Jackson County—the county-level government overseeing Kansas City—after… -
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‘People You Should Know’ Is a Love Letter to Bottom-Up Solutions
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia—Steve Hotz started Black Horse Forge, a nonprofit organization that provides support for veterans, active-duty military personnel, and first responders through the ancient art of blacksmithing. The retired sergeant, who served 17 years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, said he started the endeavor to teach the arts of blacksmithing, toolmaking…. -
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Afrikaner Double Standard Reminds Me Why I Left The Episcopal Church Behind
Thank God I left The Episcopal Church. After decades of partnering with the U.S. government to serve refugees, The Episcopal Church ended the relationship this past week, because the Trump administration asked them to serve refugees whose plight contradicts the woke Left’s grand narrative. Episcopal Migration Ministries had resettled almost 110,000 people across the U.S.,…