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
Detransitioning Teen Pleads: ‘No Child Should Have to Experience What I Have’
Resisting intense lobbying from well-funded national LGBTQ pressure groups, the state of Florida has taken a step closer to stop taxpayers from funding transgender hormone treatments and surgeries. Concerned parents and at least one teen who has detransitioned after having her breasts surgically removed asked state officials to do more to protect minors. The proposed… -
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‘Agency’: An Important New Book About America
The Gallup polling organization seems to serve up endlessly bleak news about how Americans feel about God and country. I wrote recently about its report of the historically low percentage of Americans that say they believe in God. Now Gallup reports that a historically low number of Americans believe in ourselves and our country. The… -
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Dictator Envy
Some Western leaders envy dictators’ powers. President Donald Trump said, when North Korea’s Kim Jong Un speaks, “his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” President Barack Obama told reporters it would be so much easier to be the president of China. Canada’s foolish prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said… -
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California Weighs Gender-Transition Bill for Youths Beyond Its Borders. A Former ‘Trans Kid’ Explains.
California is moving ahead with a bill that would offer gender-transition medical treatment not just to in-state children, but also to kids across America. If passed, California’s “trans refuge” bill would allow young people from other states to visit California to receive sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-reassignment surgeries. “What’s happened is that there are… -
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You’re a Scientist? So What?
A caller to my radio show this week, a physician, took strong issue with me regarding COVID-19 therapeutics. He accused me of not believing in science. His last words before we had to go to a commercial break were, “I’m a scientist.” Given that I am not a scientist, he assumed that comment would persuade… -
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A Servicewoman Questions How She Can ‘Defend Constitution’ With Roe Overturned
A servicewoman took to TikTok after Roe v. Wade was overturned to vent her anger over the decision. “How am I supposed to swear to support and defend the Constitution and a country that treats its women like second-class citizens?” @rahasenfratz said in a 3-minute video. The TikTok user, identified by the New York Post… -
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What’s Prognosis for America’s Small Businesses? New Poll: Not Good
A new poll released by the Job Creators Network Foundation finds that more than 2 out of 3 small businesses feel negatively about the economy and that nearly 3 out of 4 of them will have to “significantly” raise their prices to offset rising inflation. These disturbing findings come from the Job Creators Network Foundation’s June Small Business IQ Poll,… -
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To These Twitter Know-Nothings, Anne Frank Had White Privilege
The most famous victim of the Holocaust was guilty of white privilege. That assertion was an actual topic of discussion by left-wing activists on social media. “Anne Frank trended on Twitter on Sunday as users on the social media platform debated whether the Holocaust victim was a beneficiary of ‘white privilege,’ advantages that society supposedly… -
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Now at 9.1%, Biden’s Inflation Keeps Getting Worse
The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the fastest-growing economy in the world” and how we’re “stronger economically” than ever, the downward spiral is feeding a growing consensus that President Joe Biden and his Democrats in Congress are… -
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House GOP Task Force Aims to Cut Health Care Costs, Boost Patients’ Choices
Everyone agrees: Health care in America is too expensive and too complicated. Democrats want to double down on a centralized, Washington-controlled plan for your health care. We’ve seen the damaging impact that has had on the quality of, and access to, care in socialist countries abroad. Republicans know that to fix the health care system… -
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Library Group Recommends ‘Pronoun Book’ for Infants
“Children’s entertainment” is no longer guaranteed to be appropriate for children. With Disney vowing to promote sexual perversion, and a drag queen story hour targeting children in every city, this conclusion has become increasingly obvious. Yet, somehow, the Association for Library Service to Children has managed (or is it womanaged?) to up the ante yet… -
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‘What Green New Deal Looks Like’: Tucker Carlson on Sri Lanka’s Collapse
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday suggested sending video clips of unrest in Sri Lanka to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to show her the likely outcome of Green New Deal policies. “That is what the Green New Deal looks like in Sri Lanka,” Carlson said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after playing a clip of… -
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No Fun Allowed! How the Left Became the Fun Police.
Back in the day, supposedly conservatives were the ones who cracked down on fun. The common knowledge went that liberals were focused on free expression and free speech, while the right tried to shut things down. The modern left has abandoned its old principles of free expression, however, and become infamous for scolding Americans on… -
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‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Texas Sheriff Blasts Biden for Border Crisis
Sheriff Roy Boyd of Goliad County, Texas, joined other law enforcement officials from his state last week to raise alarm about the border crisis that’s wreaking havoc in America. These local officials, who confront the consequences daily, are now calling it an “invasion.” >>> ‘We’re Being Invaded,’ Local Texas Leaders Say as Border Crisis Worsens… -
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New Book Exposes ‘Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias’ of Left-Wing Media
During my time in the White House press corps in 2001 and 2002, the press secretary was Ari Fleischer. He was the definition of mild-mannered and unflappable for President George W. Bush. But he would tell you the reporters were less confrontational back then. Their aggression has grown so dramatically that Fleischer wrote a new… -
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It’s Not ‘Minority Rule’; It’s the Point
One of the more popular complaints of the contemporary left is that the Constitution subverts “democracy” for “minority rule.” If the United States is really more divided than ever, we have even less reason to dispense with the mechanisms and institutions that diffuse power and constrain one side of the divide from lording over the… -
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An Unsecured Border Is a Mortal and Moral Hazard
It happened outside Brackettville, Texas, which sits about halfway between Uvalde and the border crossing at Del Rio. This was a shooting you probably did not hear about—in part, thankfully, because no one was hurt. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was on a road that runs out of Brackettville when he saw a Chevrolet Suburban… -
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‘We Love Killing Babies’: What I Saw at Women’s March Protest
Protests around the nation continue in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue of abortion to the American people. On Saturday, feminist organization Women’s March marched their way from a park to the fence in front of the White House, buffeted by rain all the while…. -
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Solving the Homelessness Problem in San Francisco
In this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Mary Theroux discusses her work to relieve the plight of the homeless in San Francisco by attempting to heal issues in their lives that led them to this condition. Theroux is board chairman and CEO of the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Oakland,… -
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‘Digital Babies’ and the Culture of Lifestyle Over a Culture of Life
“Could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the metaverse?” An article featured in British newspaper The Guardian forecasts a world in which it is commonplace for young adults and would-be parents to opt toward raising “digital babies” over having real children of their own. Powered by virtual reality and artificial intelligence, these…