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
Rachel Levine Targets Transgender Heresy for Big Tech Suppression
Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, urged doctors at state medical boards to pressure Big Tech to stifle “medical misinformation” right after he declared that there is no “scientific or medical dispute” about the benefits of using experimental drugs and surgeries to force male bodies to resemble female bodies or vice… -
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March for Life President Calls for Americans to ‘Fearlessly Continue Marching’
The annual March for Life is set to take place January in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of the monumental 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. And while some have suggested that pro-life activists should focus on state-level efforts, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini is calling on pro-life Americans to "fearlessly… -
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Appeals Court’s Transgender Sports Ruling Doesn’t Add Up
The children had gathered that day for the first time in their first-grade classroom. At the top of the agenda: Learn how to do simple problems in addition and subtraction. After the teacher had reviewed some basic principles of arithmetic, she asked one of the students: “Do you know what one plus one equals?” The… -
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How Expansive Welfare Benefits Can Make Being on Dole More Lucrative Than Working
Kids love Santa. They don’t have to work for the stuff on their Christmas lists. He just gives it to them. In many states, gratuitous welfare benefits have made that childhood fantasy an adult reality. Professor Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and I have found that some families can receive the annualized equivalent of… -
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New IRS Requirement Raises Questions About Vow to Expand Audits Only on ‘Rich’
Next month, the U.S. Postal Service will be busier than usual. Not because of late Christmas cards or thank-you letters, but because of the extra Form 1099-Ks the IRS will be mailing out. Under the American Rescue Plan, third-party payment facilitators like Venmo, eBay, Etsy, and Airbnb are now required to send Form 1099-Ks to… -
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Leftists Defend Not Allowing Conservative Parents to See Them or Their Grandchildren
My previous column, “Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas,” dealt with the issue of parents whose left-wing adult children have cut off all contact with their parents because the parents are on the Right—children who will not even allow their parents to have contact with their grandchildren. One would… -
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: Incompetent but Failing Upward
One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter Principle,” a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The book’s premise, in a nutshell, was that people get promotions based on their performance in their previous jobs until they are ultimately elevated to a position in which they’re incompetent, since… -
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Are Universities Doomed?
In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable…. -
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22 Movies Your Whole Family Can Enjoy This Christmas
Finding a movie my whole family enjoys is about as common as Patriots coach Bill Belichick cracking a smile under his gray hood. My family members' differing taste in movies is never clearer than at Christmastime, when my mom would be happy to watch only Hallmark movies and my brother-in-law insists the action thriller “Die… -
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Reparations: Blackwashing Slavery
When it comes to the absurdity of American taxpayers giving “reparations” to black descendants of slaves, it’s hard to limit the number of objections. These are the facts: American slavery, though horrific, was legal. It ended 157 years ago. The government did not own slaves, the private sector did. Most Southerners did not own slaves…. -
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House GOP to Investigate Biden’s Secretive Order on Voting
The House’s new Republican majority is poised to investigate the Biden administration’s secretive, all-of-government effort to get out the vote. President Joe Biden’s executive order of March 2021 calls for every federal agency, in partnership with private organizations, to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and… -
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The Left’s Big Pitch: Embrace a Worse Life in the Name of Equality
This week, The New York Times released a long expose of the shortcomings of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. Long cherished as a crown jewel of left-wing governmental policy, the NHS has been plagued by massive resource shortcomings, requiring rationing of critical infrastructure and care. Now, citizens are waiting up to 12 hours for… -
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‘Larry Fink Is Not the Only Problem,’ Arizona State Treasurer Says
A state treasurer says the problem with New York City-based BlackRock Inc. goes beyond the investment firm’s chief executive officer, Larry Fink. “Unfortunately, Larry Fink is not the only problem. It’s a cultural problem at BlackRock, misusing their fiduciary responsibilities to push a political agenda,” Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee told The Daily Signal in… -
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4 of Most ‘Problematic’ Stories of 2022
It’s been a wild year, to say the least. In May, someone leaked the the Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade’s green light to abortion on demand. The leak was completely unprecedented and followed by months of pro-abortion protests outside justices’ homes…. -
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Detroit School Board Removes Ben Carson’s Name from School for His ‘Crime’ of Serving Under Trump
The Detroit school board recently voted to remove world-renowned neurosurgeon and native son Dr. Ben Carson’s name from its Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine magnet school. The reason: Carson served in the Cabinet of President Donald Trump. Before it was scrubbed, the school’s website glowingly stated why it was named after Carson:… -
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2 ‘Ps’ That Don’t Belong in the Same Pod: Pot and Pregnancy
Let’s say that you are a pregnant woman and have a choice between receiving a medical opinion about a drug’s effect on your child in utero from either (a) a licensed physician or (b) a high-school graduate with no medical experience. Which one is more likely to offer sound medical advice? Unfortunately, when it comes… -
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Federal Government Leaves Border Hospital With $20 Million Bill for ‘Free’ Health Care to Illegal Aliens
A hospital in Yuma, Arizona, is owed $20 million for medical services provided to illegal immigrants. “We’ve calculated that over a six-month period, from December 2021 to May 2022, we had $20 million in charges that we’re unable to bill anyone for, for services we provided to migrants alone,” Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of Yuma… -
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McConnell Stabs House GOP in the Back, Speeds Democrat Omnibus Boondoggle
As if it were not painful enough for Republicans to watch the vaunted red wave merely ripple across their ankles, they now must endure 2022’s final insult: A red wave of deficit spending courtesy of lame-duck House Democrats, triumphant Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York, and Senate GOP “leader” Mitch McConnell of Kentucky…. -
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9 Books That Would Make Great Last-Minute Christmas Gifts
With Christmas fast approaching, no doubt you may have some last-minute shopping to do. With that in mind, we’ve compiled some of The Heritage Foundation staff’s favorite books for you to consider for family and friends. “Co-Ruling with Christ” by Hugh Daniel Smith “Co-Ruling with Christ” provides practical tools that can be employed in the… -
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Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas
There are probably hundreds of thousands of men and women who, because of political differences, maintain minimal or no contact with their parents and, even more cruelly, do not allow their parents to have any contact with their children—their parents’ grandchildren. Probably an unprecedented number of Americans with grown children will be alone this Christmas…