Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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Lunacy Begins With Zero Fear of Fact-Checkers
Leftists and Democrats say the craziest things, and they can do it without fearing that a practitioner of the “fact-checking” arts is going to label them “Pants on Fire” liars on the internet. Occasionally, I will tweet these outrageous statements under the title “Zero Fear of Fact-Checkers.” Many of these bizarre bangers are about race… -
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We’ve Forgotten What the Days After 9/11 Were Like
Twenty-five years ago this month, the country we love did something it rarely does: It stopped arguing with itself. For a few weeks after the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, there was no red America or blue America. There was just America, standing in line to give blood, enlisting in numbers recruiters hadn’t seen since Vietnam, hanging flags off overpasses in towns that had… -
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Charlie Kirk Is Dead, but the Movement Must Survive
Charlie Kirk “made the winning difference” in President Donald Trump’s 2024 mandate, sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote, according to none other than White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. A year removed from Charlie’s death, Republicans from across the country are descending on Dallas to galvanize the party faithful ahead of… -
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Republicans Must Turn Dallas Rhetoric Into Washington Results
President Donald Trump had the right idea to bring Republicans together in Dallas for a midterm convention. On opening night of the event, GOP leaders struck the right notes, projecting confidence, unity, and a governing vision for the country. But speeches alone will carry Republicans only so far when voters head to the polls in… -
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Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is a Road Map for the US
“We learn, innovate, and adapt faster by pairing our human ingenuity and judgment with advanced technologies like autonomy and artificial intelligence,” stated a new guide for the U.S. Army that was published in August. This is exactly the playbook Ukraine has followed over the last four years. National security analysts have been astonished by how this… -
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Zohran Mamdani Discovers Deregulation
A funny thing happened on the way to the Big Apple’s socialist utopia: Zohran Mamdani discovered deregulation. The democratic socialist mayor of New York, who campaigned on rent freezes, free buses, and city-owned grocery stores, has apparently learned that sometimes government itself is the problem. In July, Mamdani unveiled “OPEN for Small Business,” a package of more… -
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‘Gaslighting,’ ‘Toxic,’ ‘Trauma’: How Therapy-Speak Is Changing Family Life
This is an adapted excerpt from Noelle Mering’s new book “No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them,” released Sept. 8 from Forum Books. In 2022, Merriam-Webster declared gaslighting its word of the year after searches for the term increased by more than 1,700%. “It’s a word… -
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Rent Control—Still Doesn’t Work
In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control. I said that would lead to bigger problems. Was I right? My update video reveals what happened. St. Paul politicians pushed rent control, saying rent caps would stop “unfair profiteering.” But what the heck is “profiteering,” and how is it different from “profit”?… -
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Who Is Renaming Everything on the Map? It’s Not Just Trump
In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It’s easy to find these whole geographic kerfuffles unnecessary. But the media… -
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State Department: Chinese Communist Party Is Committing Genocide
The U.S. Department of State is unambiguously stating that the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide. On Aug. 27, this writer sent some questions to the State Department Office of Press Operations through its online portal for media inquiries. One of these questions was: “Has the State Department concluded that China is continuing to engage… -
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Virginia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Folly
Newly released texts show that Dr. Anthony Fauci privately told colleagues that a reaction some people had after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Days later, he told the public that 10,000 pregnant women had received COVID-19 vaccines without any concerning safety signals being detected. “No red… -
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Calvin Coolidge on the Christian Roots of American Liberty
Welcome to the seventh in our series, Landmark Speeches in American History. We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence…. -
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Here Comes the Completely Unfair Midterm Election Coverage
With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win. Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat… -
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Reminding Corporations What They Are For
Edmund Burke, defending the “little platoons” of civil society against the leveling ambitions of revolutionary abstraction, would have found some to admire but little to recognize in the modern American corporation, an institution that has, in recent decades, developed an un-Burkean appetite for causes well beyond its charter. The Heritage Foundation’s Free Enterprise Initiative has… -
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When Virtue Signaling Replaces Character
It has never been easier to feel virtuous without making much of an effort. Put pronouns in an email signature, repost the slogan of the day, or join the online denunciation of someone who used the wrong word. In many circles, such gestures are expected. A person can take part with little at stake and… -
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Republicans Must Shine the Light of Freedom to Stop the Socialist Scourge
How can anyone escape the irony that in this year, as we celebrate 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the principles of that declaration are being widely challenged? When Americans should be basking in the light of our hard-fought-for freedoms, standing guard on our God-given rights noted in that declaration,… -
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Homebuyers Deserve the Facts About Crime and Schools
Nothing is more natural when buying a house than looking into how safe the neighborhood is and, if you have or plan to have children, whether the schools are any good. Yet the last Democrat presidential administration tried to prevent real estate agents from answering those kinds of questions because it prioritized “diversity” over safety… -
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Wolves in White Coats: HHS Exposes the Racket Behind ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
For years, many of us have argued that so-called “gender-affirming care” for kids (read: sex-rejecting procedures) is neither caring nor affirming. It’s a euphemism for drugs and surgeries that sterilize and harm minors struggling with their sexed bodies. This madness may not have started as a fraudulent money-making scheme. But that’s where it ended up…. -
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The Estate Tax Rewards the Wealthy for Funding Progressive Foundations
America’s private fortunes are the economic engines that built the most prosperous economy in world history, and they are giving themselves away. Since her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott has handed out $26 billion—much of it to racial equity, DEI, and “social justice” causes. Warren Buffett has pledged 99% of his roughly $170… -
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Massachusetts’ New Abortion Law Is a Tragedy
This Monday in a crowded room of people beaming with pride and excitement, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey smiled for the cameras as she enthusiastically signed legislation legalizing abortion for any reason, at any time, right up to the moment of birth. It’s hard to overstate just how jarring and bizarre this is. A room full…