Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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How Ex-Addict Found Personal Redemption by Helping Impoverished South Dallas Neighborhood
Daron Babcock was in dark times for his personal life, and his addictions to alcohol and drugs were at their breaking point. “I remember falling on my knees that night and just crying out to God and saying, ‘God, I don’t know you, and I don’t even know if you’re real or not, but if…Kevin Roberts -
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Investment Fund Boycotts These 29 Companies Hostile to Conservative Values
At a time when many conservatives are fed up with woke corporations and seeking alternatives, Ridgeline Research is offering an investment option that boycotts 29 companies hostile to conservatives. The American Conservative Values ETF (ticker symbol: ACVF) was created to help conservatives avoid putting their money in an index fund, a mutual fund, or another exchange-traded…Robert B. Bluey -
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House Republicans’ Next Opportunity to Drain Swamp by Banning Earmarks
House Republicans will vote soon on whether to bring back the ban on budget earmarks, which are a way for members of Congress to dole out favors using taxpayer money. Ending earmarks would be an excellent opportunity for the new House majority to combat the wasteful and corrupt political culture that has infected the nation’s…David Ditch -
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Wyoming Catholic College Opposes Radical Respect for Marriage Act
Another prominent Catholic academic institution is opposing the Democrat-led Respect for Marriage Act. Wyoming Catholic College President Glenn Arbery shared with The Daily Signal on Saturday that the college "supports the USCCB's letter to the Senate against the Respect for Marriage Act, as well as the USCCB's shorter and more recent press statement." "The RMA [Respect for…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Understanding Why More Blacks Voted Republican in 2022
Among the key headlines from the 2022 election were gains by Republicans among minority voters. According to the AP VoteCast survey, Republican House candidates got 14% of the black vote, almost twice the 8% of the black vote that Republicans captured in 2020 and 2018. The difference between the percentage of black votes that Democrats…Star Parker -
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The Same Old, Same Old Deja Vu
Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from Mar-a-Lago, as well…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Fawning NY Times’ ‘Review’ of Michelle Obama’s New Book Is an Embarrassment
Ben Shapiro was blunt on Twitter. He had discovered “the most sycophantic book review ever written.” The book was the second tome from multimillionaire author and advice guru Michelle Obama. The review appeared in The New York Times, from the paper’s “Help Desk” columnist, Judith Newman. She’s “the help,” all right. Ed Morrissey tweeted back…Tim Graham -
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After Maricopa County Voting Debacle, Arizona Must Reform Its Election Laws
If Arizona is genuinely interested in enacting much-needed state election reforms—and it should be, especially after this month’s voting debacle in Maricopa County, the state’s largest—it’s now or never. Or at least for the next four or eight years. Term-limited outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, should call a lame-duck special session of…Peter Parisi -
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Thanksgiving Lessons From the Pilgrims
If you eat a nice meal Thursday, thank the Pilgrims. They made Thanksgiving possible. They left the Old World to escape religious persecution. They imagined a new society where everyone worked together and shared everything. In other words, they dreamed of socialism. Socialism then almost killed them. As I explain in my weekly video, the…John Stossel -
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Young Americans Voted to Ruin Their Lives
This week, The New York Times published a column by a left-wing academic (forgive the redundancy), John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. In his first sentence, Della Volpe reveals his politics. He described young Americans as “stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping…Dennis Prager -
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Heritage Foundation Launches $1.3 Million Ad Campaign to Expose Same-Sex Marriage Bill’s Religious Liberty Threat
The Heritage Foundation is investing $1.3 million in an ad campaign to highlight concerns for religious freedom posed by the so-called Respect for Marriage Act now before Congress. “The bill puts a target on the backs of people of faith who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, opening individuals and organizations to…Virginia Allen -
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The History of Thanksgiving, Explained by a Hillsdale Professor
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621. More than 200 years later in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation to make the last Thursday of November “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” Lincoln’s proclamation came at the request of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale. Hale made it her mission for there to…Virginia Allen -
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Biden’s Not So Subtle Lurch Toward Dictatorship
In the wake of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden was asked during a rare press conference—in reference to Twitter’s new owner—whether he thought Elon Musk was a threat to national security. With a pause and a smirk, the president said that topic was “worthy of being looked at.” With those words, Biden made it…Richard Stern -
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Thanksgiving and the American Wisdom of Carving Out a Day for Gratitude
It’s jarring to see retailers jump the gun on merchandise for any holiday, but the increasingly widespread practice of kicking off Christmas sales at the first sign of fall is particularly bizarre to see in America, where we have a national holiday—one of the nation’s oldest—in the interim. This ambivalence toward Thanksgiving is especially ironic…Rachel Alexander Cambre -
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Thanksgiving to Whom?
Merriam-Webster Inc. has announced it is adding about 500 new words to its seventh edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. I doubt most people will ever use them in conversation or in writing, but they will be beneficial when playing the board game. Meanwhile, the corruption of the English language continues. Some words (and…Cal Thomas -
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Former ‘Nonbinary’ Woman Sues Health Care Workers for ‘Abhorrent Misdiagnosis’ That Led to Double Mastectomy
For the second time this month, a woman who has detransitioned from a gender-nonconforming lifestyle is suing the health care professionals who advised her to undergo gender-transition procedures, including the surgical removal of both breasts. The lawsuit highlights a growing trend of formerly gender-confused individuals who are suing the health care industry over what they…Dan Hart -
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San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender
Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man. That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT. This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with…Jay Richards -
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Republicans Expect McConnell Retaliation for Supporting Rick Scott
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may have defeated Florida Sen. Rick Scott in the November leadership elections, but not before 10 Republicans voted against the Kentucky Republican. Now, some of those defectors are preparing for retribution for siding with Scott, The Daily Signal has learned. McConnell has said he is “not in any way offended…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Women Are Leaving Church, but Have ‘Reason to Return,’ Author Says
In the past decade, 16 million American women have left the Christian church, according to author and journalist Ericka Andersen. “The reasons are really layered,” Andersen says, “anything from overwhelm and busyness, to some that have experienced ‘church hurt.’” In her new book “Reason to Return: Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs…Virginia Allen -
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Stray-Missile Incident Should Serve to Strengthen Multidimensional US-Poland Partnership
Speaking after last week’s deadly missile incident near Przewodow, a Polish village not far from the Ukrainian border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pointedly noted that the blame for it was Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Noting that “passivity will be suicide for us,” Morawiecki further emphasized that “there is only one way to involve Poland in the…Anthony B. Kim