Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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It’s Not a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law. It’s an Anti-Indoctrination Law.
The radical left just can’t stop talking about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-“grooming” law. The left’s warped worldview prevents them from understanding why DeSantis signed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill into law March 28, or why parents don’t want their children being indoctrinated into LGBT ideology. The rabid response to the bill’s passage has… -
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Under Top Prosecutor’s Policies, Sheriff Says, ‘It’s Profitable to Do Crime in Los Angeles County’
LOS ANGELES—The policies of Los Angeles’ top prosecutor have created an environment rich for crime, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says. “It’s profitable to do crime in Los Angeles County,” Villanueva, a Democrat, said during a Heritage Foundation event Thursday night in downtown LA focused on District Attorney George Gascon. “We're having people [from]… -
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Parent Opposed to Race-Based Admissions
A Virginia parent won a legal victory when a Fairfax County judge dismissed four charges of libel and slander with prejudice Friday. Harry Jackson, a former PTA president of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology who opposed changes to the school’s admissions policy, was facing libel and slander charges in the wake of claiming that… -
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Why These Moms of Murdered Sons Want Justice From LA’s Progressive District Attorney
LOS ANGELES—Ana Estevez should have celebrated her son Piqui’s 10th birthday Feb. 19. Instead, she grieved over the five years she has awakened each day unable to say good morning to her little boy. “He was just the joy of my life,” Estevez, a resident of Long Beach, California, says of Piqui. “He was everything… -
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Disney Helps Employees ‘Transition’ Transgender Children and Themselves
The Walt Disney Co. is assisting employees and their children with sex-change and “gender affirmation” procedures through the company’s benefits program, an internal video suggests. Disney’s “benefits team” is offering resources and guides to employees transitioning to the opposite gender, as well as information for employees’ children who are transitioning, according to a video shared… -
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States Should Decouple From California’s Oppressive Emissions Policies
In a “let them eat cake”-style speech given last month, President Joe Biden suggested that if motorists switched to electric vehicles, they could spare themselves from high gasoline prices. And while this claim itself may be dubious and indicative of how out of touch he is with real-world family budgets, at least he used the… -
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Alabama Passes Bill Banning Sex-Change Treatments for Kids, Jailing Participating Doctors
The Alabama Legislature passed a bill Thursday criminalizing sex-change treatments for children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. If signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, the bill would treat the castration of children and other sex-change treatments as Class C felonies. Such felonies carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison… -
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2 Men Accused of Posing as Federal Lawmen, Buying Gifts for Secret Service Agents
Two men are accused of posing as federal agents and providing gifts to members of the Secret Service, including one who was assigned to first lady Jill Biden’s protective detail, according to court documents. The FBI arrested Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, both of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday on a criminal complaint charging… -
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Costa Rican President-Elect Faces Array of Challenges, Opportunities
Costa Ricans have elected a new president, Rodrigo Chaves, who will take office May 8 to succeed Carlos Alvarado. Here’s what you need to know about Chaves and his priorities, and how they might affect U.S.-Costa Rican relations. Q: Who is Chaves, and can you give us a brief sketch of the election? A: Chaves,… -
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Bakery Sues and Wins After College Promotes Protests, Labels Owners ‘Racist’ for Stopping Student Shoplifter
Periodically, in what seems like a never-ending assault on our basic values and the rule of law, good news emerges. The good news now is the unanimous decision of a panel of three judges on an Ohio court of appeals supporting a jury decision in favor of Gibson’s Bakery in its case against Oberlin College…. -
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Don’t Be Fooled by Biden’s ‘Only Taxing the Rich’ Claims
On the campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed dozens of times that the 98% of Americans earning less than $400,000 per year wouldn’t pay a penny more in taxes if he was elected. Apparently, the federal government could spend trillions more on a big government social agenda at no cost to the average American…. -
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3 Recent Examples of Government’s Environmental Extremism
Environmental extremism in government is increasingly becoming unhinged, both domestically and internationally. Here are three recent examples of this extremism: 1. John Kerry, the Biden administration’s special presidential envoy for climate, has made alarming remarks regarding climate change and the war in Ukraine. As reported in National Review, “Kerry fretted that the conflict [in Ukraine]… -
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Upholding Rights for Women, Addressing Teen Girls’ Mental Health Crisis
On this edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast, we break down a new effort to defend the legal rights of women and girls. A document from the Independent Women’s Network, “The Women’s Bill of Rights,” calls for legally defining basic sex-based terms that activists have manipulated in recent years to alter the common public meaning… -
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Over Democrats’ Opposition, South Carolina Passes Bill to Keep Males Out of Women’s Sports
South Carolina’s Republican-dominated House passed legislation Tuesday banning males from women’s sports despite Democrats’ stall tactics. Democrats attempted to delay the vote by proposing an estimated 1,000 amendments, according to The Associated Press. Debate on the amendments Tuesday lasted eight hours, with Democrats proposing measures such as renaming the bill the Discrimination Capital of the United States… -
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LGBT Left Is Aggressor in Culture War
Last week, reporter Christopher Rufo released video footage of top Disney employees vowing to inject their radical LGBTQ agenda into children’s programming. Disney producer Latoya Raveneau told an all-hands meeting that her team works to push a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” in programming aimed at kids and sought to add “queerness” to such content. Disney corporate… -
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Biden’s Order on Gender Transitioning Kids Shows Left Is All In on the Culture War
The president thinks that if you don’t want children to receive life-altering chemical treatments based on an ideological definition of gender, you’re “hateful.” The Department of Health and Human Services recently released an order that said it would be adding federal protections to ensure “transgender youth receive the care they need.” During a video commemorating… -
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What Brings You More Joy, Your Child Getting Into a Prestigious College or Getting Married?
The second of my two sons got married last week, and it prompted me to consider the question: What brings parents more joy: their child getting into a prestigious college or their child getting married (presumably to a good person)? Three things prompted this question: my joy and pride, the joy of those who attended… -
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White House Refuses to Weigh In on Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports
The White House dodged a question on transgender participation in college sports during Monday’s press briefing. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if the Biden administration thought it was fair that biological males are now competing against women in college sports. The White House is “not the governing body… -
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Jobs, Family, Loyalty: Identifying the Governing Vision of National Conservatives
The American conservative movement long has been a raucous conversation among groups with different purposes, objects, and frameworks in which they approach politics and culture. Now, the strain known as national conservatism means to join that conversation. On one level, this national conservatism group makes a needed contribution when it stresses that the nation is… -
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Great Pride in Being Mexican American in Texas
Leftists have been scratching their heads and rubbing their eyes in disbelief as poll after poll tell them that Latino voters are starting to tack rightward in significant numbers. Now along comes a poll that makes clear why that’s happening, at least in Texas. The Lone Star State’s large Mexican American population loves America. They’re…