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
Dreadful ‘Fascist’ ‘Barbie’ Dominates the Cinema
Anyone watching television in the last few months has been inundated with marketing for the “Barbie” movie. It wasn’t just in the movie commercials. It was in commercials for cars and other products. It was inserted into the plots of reality shows. It was everywhere. It’s not a movie I had any interest in seeing,… -
opinion
The Pro-Trans Medical Establishment Does the Very Thing It Falsely Accuses Conservatives of Doing
Transgender activists often claim that when their opponents want to outlaw medical experiments on children, they are not opposing a grotesque alteration of the body, but forbidding doctors to provide any kind of medical care for a class of people—namely, those who identify as transgender. Yet we conservatives and our gender-critical allies wholeheartedly support requiring… -
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From Worst to Worster: Adding Xylazine to Fentanyl
Xylazine—a tranquilizer approved as a sedative for veterinary medical use but not for any use in humans—is currently worsening the opioid crisis. Known on the street as “tranq,” xylazine has become a common additive to substances like fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, whether taken orally, by smoking or snorting it, or by injecting it. It creates… -
opinion
Biden’s Woke Housing Plan for All of Us
Rising interest rates and a shortage of lower-cost houses under the Biden administration continue to make homeownership unobtainable for many young families. Instead of working to solve actual problems like these, President Joe Biden is once again choosing to prioritize the expansive promotion of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology in housing policies, as a… -
opinion
2 Sets of Laws for 2 Americas
Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America. Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers. Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home. So far, Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy. But as a senator and vice president with… -
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Bad Rx: Regulatory Burden Driving Doctors Out of Private Practices, Into Hospital Employment
Independent medical practices are being smothered by excessive and costly government regulation, fueling greater hospital market consolidation and resulting in ever-higher health care costs for individuals and families. There is, however, a glimmer of good news. In a recent hearing, Republicans and Democrats on the House Small Business Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Regulations, chaired… -
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White House Purges 442 Reporters Using New Press Credential Rules
Over the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%. There are now 442 fewer reporters with a coveted “hard pass”—the result of new rules announced in May that took effect Tuesday. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas was among the reporters slated to lose his White House… -
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Republicans Demand McCarthy Reform Pandemic Response Legislation
Republicans are calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to apply reforms to the pandemic response legislation in order to protect the American people from future government overreach. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy lead the lawmakers in sending a letter to McCarthy on Wednesday demanding substantive changes to the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)—changes they… -
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State GOP Devises Plan to Limit Influence of ‘Woke’ Teachers Unions
The Alabama Republican Party is on the verge of prohibiting some GOP candidates from accepting campaign donations from the Alabama Education Association, the predominant teachers union in the state. Alabama GOP Chairman John Wahl announced the proposal ahead of Saturday’s vote by the state party’s executive committee. If approved, candidates running for the Alabama Board… -
news
Fitch Downgrades US Credit
Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+” on Tuesday, a signal that the agency no longer has complete confidence in the government’s ability to avoid default. The rating “reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance …… -
opinion
The Gruesome Premise of a Washington Post Feature
A new Washington Post feature attempts to make a teen couple who had twins after Texas’ heartbeat law went into effect into Dickensian characters, victims of the cruel laws around them. Mom Brooke High, we learn, watched the entire 10 seasons of “Friends” after the family moved to Tampa, Florida, for a military job for… -
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CANCELED FOR ‘HATE’: Tech Company Moves Against Parental Rights Group After SPLC Attack
A technology company has deleted a parental rights group's events on its site after the Southern Poverty Law Center added the group to its "hate map," which plots conservative nonprofits alongside neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. "It is alarming that we live in a time in America where trained Marxists can have an organization… -
opinion
Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Warrants International Attention
“If we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct,” says Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria. In June, the Congressional Values Action Team caucus met with Anagbe and the Rev. Remigius Ihyula who shared their testimonies of atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic extremists… -
news
DC Police: No Active Shooter on Capitol Hill After Shelter in Place
The United States Capitol Police ordered Senate offices to shelter in place on Wednesday due to a “concerning 911 call.” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Officer Hugh Carew told The Daily Signal around 3 p.m. that “a call came in for an active shooter” but that call “appears to be a bad call.” “No injuries and… -
opinion
NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR: Social Networking App Boots Moms for Liberty Amid Leftist Attacks
The social networking platform Nextdoor bills itself as an app to bring neighbors together, claiming that "connecting with others is a universal human need," but it relies upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, to determine which groups are too "hateful" to be good neighbors. Nextdoor recently banned a Tennessee chapter of… -
opinion
Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind
There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see—the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with. You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their… -
opinion
How Unrest in France After Police-Involved Killing Compared With Riots After George Floyd’s Death
Protests and riots erupted following the police-involved fatal shooting of 17-year-old French citizen Nahel Merzouk, who was of Moroccan and Algerian descent, on June 27 in France. Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, says “certainly what happened in France takes us directly back to 2020” after the… -
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Has Speech Canceled After Saying ‘Climate Change Is Not a Crisis’
The International Monetary Fund canceled a talk with physicist John Clauser after he said, “Climate change is not a crisis.” The IMF had invited Clauser, the recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics, to deliver a Webex speech on July 25. Five days before the event, Clauser was informed his speech had been “postponed.” The… -
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Oakland NAACP Demands Prosecution of Criminals, Hiring More Police
The Oakland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called upon city leaders to declare a state of emergency on crime, stop defunding the police, and prosecute people who commit serious crimes. In a written, open letter, Cynthia Adams, president of the Oakland branch of the NAACP, and Bishop Bob Jackson,… -
opinion
The ‘Mainstream’ Media’s Radical Rebellion Against God
The line between radical activism and “mainstream” journalism has been obliterated, especially when it comes to the LGBTQ+ lobbyists. The war on traditional Christianity is on. It was splashed all over the front page of the July 25 USA Today. The headline above the photograph was “Christian transgender man says fighting LGBTQ+ discrimination has increased…