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
Disney’s Leftist Turn Betrays Walt Disney’s Vision
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill passed by the Republican-majority Legislature that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando. This was in response to the company’s current leadership and some of its employees who have protested another bill signed by the governor that prohibits the teaching… -
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Food Price Inflation Continues to Worsen. Here’s What Should Be Done About It.
Food prices are continuing to rise at an alarming rate. The 8.8% year-over-year increase (March 2022 compared with March 2021) is the largest in more than 40 years. Over the past seven months, each month’s year-over-year food price increase has been above 4% and each successive month has been higher than the previous month (starting at… -
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How America Became La La Land
America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s “1984,” and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two million people have crossed the southern border… -
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Disney’s Blatant Hypocrisy
Florida lawmakers voted last week to end the Walt Disney Co.’s special self-government privileges, which it never should have received. Since 1967, Disney has operated its own mini-state, surrounded by Florida—much as the Vatican is encircled by Rome. The Reedy Creek Improvement District exempts Disney from certain taxes and regulations that burden other companies. This… -
opinion
Against ‘Principled Loserdom’
I was in New Haven, Connecticut, this past week for a couple of events at Yale, one of which was a William F. Buckley, Jr. Program debate for a primarily college-age audience on “common good conservatism.” During the debate, I argued on behalf of the more “muscular,” more forceful, and less “liberal” approach to political… -
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Lessons From 100 Years of American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti, a journalist and historian of American conservatism, is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He joins this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his new book “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.” Continetti’s book covers the history of American conservatism stretching back to the 1920s and… -
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A New Horizon for the United States-Uzbekistan Relationship
America’s partnership with Uzbekistan has become more relevant than ever. This former Soviet state is an ally against Russia, has an emerging market-based economy, and possesses significantly undervalued natural assets. Capital Tashkent’s relationship with Washington entered what has been called “a new era of strategic partnership” during President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s historic first visit to the… -
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The Government’s Mask Confusion
Asked whether he would heed calls from a growing number of congressional Democrats to continue turning away migrants at the border due to concerns about COVID-19, President Joe Biden told reporters, “There’s going to be an appeal by the Justice Department.” Huh? The president later cleaned up his own mess, clarifying that the Justice Department will appeal a federal judge’s… -
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Superhero Obama Fights ‘Online Lies’?
The New York Times sounded a little giddy on the front page of its “Business” section April 21 with the headline “Obama Joins Fight to Curb Online Lies.” This spin strongly suggests former President Barack Obama never lies. He’s a valiant warrior against lies. That came after a badly disguised press release at CNN.com on… -
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Taxes Are 1 Plague That Won’t Pass Over Your Home
As millions of Jews continue to celebrate Passover, a holiday dedicated to the achievement of a free society devoted to the God-given rights of all people, this week also marked the left’s favorite holiday—Tax Day. Tax Day represents more than the left’s desire to endlessly take the fruits of our labors and expand the government. Its tax plans are designed… -
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NBA Player Enes Kanter Freedom Stands Tall for Justice
Although he gained initial attention for speaking out against the genocidal Chinese Communist Party, pro basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom has been a human rights advocate for nearly a decade now. Freedom says he believes that due to his status as a famous athlete, having played for five NBA teams, he has a responsibility to… -
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Washington Post’s Past Racism Detailed in Book on End of World War II
It turns out that The Washington Post embraced some forms of “cancel culture” at least as far back as 1945. In one case, the Post supported a college that was closing a student newspaper for publishing what the newspaper characterized as a “highly explosive” piece in support of racial integration. The Post also warned in… -
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Biological Sex Isn’t Up for Debate
Regardless of what the mainstream media and Democrats might want you to think, no one can change their biological sex, regardless of the hormones or surgical procedures that they might undertake to attempt to do so. We are at a moment in time where up is down and down is up, and it’s a dangerous… -
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3 Colleges Get Their Just Deserts
When the Soviet communists’ hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time on Dec. 25, 1991, some said that the last refuge of Marxism was in the academic institutions of the West. They were right. That totalitarian ideology has infected American colleges and universities and other institutions that are purveying cancel culture,… -
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No More Liberal Moderators Tilting Debates
The Republican National Committee made a bold decision that the media elites treated like an anti-democratic outrage. The RNC pulled out of the allegedly bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. This decision is not an outrage. It’s long overdue. The Democrats are allergic to doing any primary debates on Fox News. It’s only in the last… -
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Free at Last
“And they’re off,” as the callers of horse races say, but in this case, it means the government will no longer enforce mask mandates on airplanes, trains, buses, subways, and other forms of public transportation. U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a judge for the Middle District of Florida, said the rule exceeded the… -
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Florida Follows the Science With New Guidelines on Transgender Treatment for Kids
Finally, someone actually cares about the children. The Florida Department of Health released new guidelines Wednesday about treating gender dysphoria in children. Unlike the recent guidance from the Biden administration, Florida’s guidance doesn’t promote aggressive medical interventions for minors who are struggling with gender dysphoria. Instead, the state’s guidance states: • Social gender transition should… -
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New York Times Chooses Passover and Easter to Mock God and Bible
On the eve of Passover, on Good Friday, The New York Times published an opinion piece on God, the Bible, and Passover. This would not be noteworthy except for the fact that the piece mocked all three. The two titles of the piece (one in the print edition and one for the Times’ digital edition)… -
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Biden’s Smartphones for Illegal Aliens Shouldn’t Replace Detention
The announcement that the Biden administration is giving free smartphones to illegal aliens who recently crossed the border understandably has incensed Americans. It brings back memories of “Obamaphones.” Although the “Bidenphone” has limited functionality and provides better immigration enforcement awareness than none at all, it underscores the better options of preventing illegal immigration and detaining those who… -
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‘White Nationalists’ Haunt America While Black Racists Aim to Kill People
Top Democrats claim that nothing in America is more dangerous than white racism. As President Joe Biden said Oct. 21: “According to the United States intelligence community, domestic terrorism from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland.” “In the FBI’s view,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said June 15, “the top domestic…