Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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Phoenix, Atlanta, and Miami Metros See Fastest Inflation
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the consumer price index rose 8.2% in September compared with the year before, but that national average hides the fact that prices are rising faster and higher in certain parts of the nation. Breaking the country into the same subregions used by the Census Bureau, the… -
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2 Reasons Young Men May Not Be Having Sex
“Young men aren’t having sex!” A Twitter thread that has been gaining traction resurfaced a 2019 Washington Post study, which found that young men are not having as much sex as they used to. Alexandra Hunt, a former stripper who lost the 2022 Democratic congressional primary in Philadelphia, wrote, “Nearly a third of men under 30 have not had sex. And a… -
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Democratic Candidate for Oregon Governor Turns on Ally Over Homelessness Crisis
One Democrat is accusing her fellow Democrat and ally of failing to address the homelessness crisis is Oregon. “Nearly three years ago, I called for a homelessness state of emergency here in our state,” Oregon Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek said during a debate Wednesday, adding that outgoing Democrat Gov. Kate Brown “did nothing.” Brown previously… -
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Democrats Out of Answers, but Not Excuses, on Crime
Democrats have no solutions to today’s crime surge. Here are four ways they shrug off the mayhem. 1.) Deep Denial Through Sept. 27, New Orleans suffered 208 homicides, up 44% compared with the period in 2021 and up 141% versus 2019. The Crescent City has become America’s murder capital. “I do not embrace that at… -
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In Europe, Rebellion Against the Elites Emerges as Trend
Giorgia Meloni’s victory in the Italian elections opens a new political outlook in Italy and in Europe, accelerating a trend characterized by the emergence of two increasingly well-defined blocs. On one side, we find a bloc made up of political parties ranging from the Greens and the European radical left to the European People’s Party,… -
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Why Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy
This week, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the soon-departing head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if it was a “mistake” for schools to be shuttered as long as they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should realize, and have realized,” Fauci answered, “that there will be deleterious… -
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Study: Gender Transition Surgeries on Minors Accelerate
Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, the journal of the American Medical Association. No less shocking than the cumulative total is the accelerating rate from year to year. Using data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine… -
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Corporate Media Is Trying to Divide Americans
American democracy, we have been told, is in grave peril. It’s a perspective we hear echoed dozens of times per day in the mainstream media: If this next election doesn’t go precisely how our hallowed elitists desire, surely tyranny will follow. As one of those sagacious experts, MSNBC‘s Joy Reid, recently put it on Twitter:… -
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LA City Council or KKK Meeting?
In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader—all Latino—used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian, and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase “Latino power.” LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control “just” 30% of the 15… -
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Obama’s Government Propaganda on Netflix
Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them. The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government. As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda. Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.” I… -
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Ulta Beauty Faces Ultra-Backlash for Giving Platform to Man Pretending to Be Woman
After cosmetics superstore Ulta Beauty released a podcast Oct. 13 featuring a biological male who “identifies” as a woman discussing “girlhood” and “motherhood,” real women are promising to boycott the brand. “I really think more women need to wake up to this nonsense,” wrote one Twitter user. “I think too many of us have stayed… -
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A Young Woman Survived an ISIS Attack. Then She Was Euthanized in Belgium.
Seventeen-year-old Shanti De Corte was waiting to board a plane headed to Italy for a school trip in 2016 when an explosion went off in Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. Parts of the airport filled with smoke and panicked people started running before a second bomb went off a few minutes later. Thirty-two people were killed in… -
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PayPal Faces House Inquiry After $2,500 ‘Misinformation’ Fine Controversy
House Republicans are launching an inquiry into PayPal after the payment processing company sparked major controversy for a policy that would fine customers for “misinformation.” The controversy began when news broke earlier this month that PayPal would fine customers $2,500 for spreading misinformation. PayPal quickly retracted the policy, saying it was a mistake that “went… -
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White House Refuses to Address Arrests of Pro-Lifers Amid Attacks on Pregnancy Resource Centers
President Joe Biden’s administration is refusing to address why it’s focusing efforts on arresting pro-life activists amid national outcry over dozens of attacks on pro-life centers and churches. At least 86 Catholic churches and 74 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life organizations have been attacked since the May leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, according… -
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3 Seas Initiative: America’s Opportunity in Europe to Advance National Interests
A statement highlighting U.S. support for the Three Seas Initiative united a bipartisan group of senators, including Republicans Rob Portman of Ohio and Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democrats Chris Coons of Delaware, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. In their written statement in June, the five senators underscored: The… -
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The Gender-Obsessed Left Will Have to Pry My Children From My Cold, Dead Hands
As a father, it is my responsibility to watch out for my children and to protect them from demonic lies and from medical interventions that would leave them scarred, stunted, and infertile. Yet a growing chorus of activists and legislators seem intent on taking children away from parents like me, not because we would harm… -
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Drew Barrymore’s Radical Message to Our Sex-Crazed Culture
It’s not a message you’d expect to hear from a famous Hollywood actress. But in a new blog post, Drew Barrymore pushes back against our culture’s obsession with sex, our way of seeing it as the pinnacle of worthwhile human experiences. Describing her surprise as being referred to as a woman who “hates sex,” Barrymore… -
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Ulta Beauty Podcast on Girlhood Features 2 Biological Males, No Women
Last week, Ulta Beauty sparked controversy by inviting transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male in the process of transitioning, as a podcast guest for the episode “The Beauty of … Girlhood.” In a clip from the hourlong episode that has circulated on the internet, Mulvaney tells the host of aspirations to become a mother and raise children…. -
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Explaining Conservativism II: Why the Left Hates It
“Since at least the World War II generation, most parents who held conservative values either did not think they had to teach their children those values or simply did not know how to do so. Most still don’t. If asked to define conservative values, most conservatives will be tongue-tied.” That’s what I wrote in Part… -
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On Protests in Iran, Silence of Feminists, ‘Progressives’ Deafening
Where are the American feminists and “progressives” when we need them? You know, the men-versus-women, pro-abortion types who say things like the reversal of Roe v. Wade represent “men wanting to tell women what to do with their bodies”? Last month, on Sept. 16, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman living in Iran, died in a…