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
Why TV’s ‘The Office’ Could Never Be Made Today
The left is the dominant force in media today. Leftists control all the levers of cultural power, from the TV writers’ room to the film sets in Hollywood. These leftists use their cultural power to dictate what you can and can’t see. The latest casualty is an episode of the hit sitcom “The Office,” which… -
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Former Wife of Al-Qaeda Operative Speaks Out on Plight of Afghan Women
Yasmine Mohammed was born and raised in Canada, but she lived a life that few Western women could fathom. The daughter of an Egyptian and a Palestinian, she is of Arab descent and was raised Muslim. Forced to wear a hijab and adhere to a strict interpretation of the Islamic faith, Mohammed later escaped a… -
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Pennsylvania Disputes Legal Group’s Finding on ‘Unknown’ Ballots
The office of Pennsylvania’s top election official mocked a conservative legal group’s findings about undelivered and unreturned mail-in ballots in last year’s presidential contest. The Public Interest Legal Foundation last week issued a report asserting that Pennsylvania had 15,175 undeliverable mail-in ballots and 425,606 “unknown” or unaccounted-for ballots. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by a… -
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Report Cites These Scientific Facts About Unborn Babies at 15 Weeks
A new report from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute highlights scientific facts about babies at 15 weeks of gestation in the run-up to a monumental and contentious abortion case before the Supreme Court. The report, called "15 Facts at 15 Weeks" and first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, is intended to help the… -
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Retreat From Afghanistan Makes Taliban Best Armed Islamist Group on Earth
When the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan last month, the group took possession of a U.S.-funded weapons stockpile worth tens of billions of dollars. The U.S. invested nearly $83 billion in bolstering the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, more than $24 billion of which went to funding weapons, vehicles, and other equipment, according to a Special… -
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House Republicans Push Democrats for Vote on Rent Relief Bill
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee filed a discharge petition in an attempt to force a floor vote on a bill they said would help distribute rental assistance to low-income renters quicker. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., ranking member of the committee, said Democrats forced the hand of Republicans who first introduced the legislation, the Renter Protection Act, in… -
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During Patriot Week, We Remember America’s Founding. Here’s How to Join the Celebration
Judge Michael Warren felt conviction after his daughter asked him why there wasn’t a specific time each year dedicated to remembering American history and celebrating the nation’s founding. “We need to start a new celebration for America,” Leah, only 10 at the time, told her father. Warren, a judge on the 6th Circuit Court in Oakland County, Michigan, says… -
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We’re Less Safe Today Than on 9/11
It’s 20 years after 9/11, and you might be less safe than you were 20 years ago. The Taliban—which were the people that really allowed 9/11 to happen, because they let al-Qaeda work in Afghanistan, they protected them—20 years later, they will be more powerful than when they started. That’s a gift, essentially, that President… -
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20 Years Later, a 9/11 Firefighter Uses His Grief to Help Others
Twenty years ago today, Islamist terrorists struck America. Across the country and around the world, Americans were left battered and broken in the aftermath of the first significant attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. Life could never be the same after Sept. 11, 2001. But life didn't stop after that terrible day. Survivors had… -
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Fauci-Funded Wuhan Lab Viruses 10,000 Times Stronger Than Usual, Documents Show
American and Chinese researchers funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s federal agency created viruses in a Wuhan lab that exhibited over 10,000 times higher viral load in humanized mice than the natural viruses they were based on, another expert in infectious diseases says, citing newly released documents. The U.S. nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance notified Fauci's National… -
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Justice Breyer Warns Court-Packers: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’
Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the Supreme Court's four most liberal justices, has issued a stark warning to those pushing to pack the high court: “What goes around comes around.” Breyer made the remark during an interview with NPR published Friday, ahead of the release of his new book “The Authority of the Court and the Peril… -
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Feminism, Realistic or Fantastical
As a millennial woman, I read Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” for the first time with a sense of familiarity. It was familiar not only because I recognized in it the feminist arguments of today (many credit the work for launching the second wave of feminism) or that I recognized certain women I have known in its… -
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Rolling Stone Commits Another Fake News Blunder. Here’s What This Says About Modern Media.
Not content with publishing what is perhaps the most infamous fake news story this decade, Rolling Stone has doubled down with another whopper. In 2014, Rolling Stone—a publication that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture—ran a widely publicized story about a violent “rape” that took place at the University of Virginia. The story perfectly… -
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Never Forget: A New York Firefighter Shares His 9/11 Stories
Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that looms large in the American psyche. For many of us, the horrific images on TV of burning and collapsing towers, civilians jumping to their deaths, and endless seas of rubble are forever etched in memory. But for Americans born after 9/11, it can be difficult to fully comprehend… -
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On 20th Anniversary of 9/11, We Regrettably Are Less Safe
On this major anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we Americans have to ask ourselves: “Are we safer now than we were 20 years ago?” It’s difficult to admit, but we aren’t. The Biden administration’s reckless pullout of Afghanistan put terrorists back on offense and emboldens our other adversaries. The southern border, opened by this… -
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1971 Pittsburgh Pirates All-Minority Lineup Was Historic—and Likely Purposeful
Fifty years ago, on the first night of September 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates entered a game with the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, clinging to a four-and-a-half-game lead in the National League East. The Pirates had led the division since early June—by as much as 11 and a half games—but with only 25 games left in the… -
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Biden White House Tells Trump Appointees to Resign or Be Fired as Military Academy Advisers
The Biden administration told 11 former Trump officials to resign from their appointed positions on military service academy advisory boards or face dismissal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Wednesday. The officials include former Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, CNN reported…. -
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Biden’s Risky ‘Over the Horizon’ Counterterrorism Plan for Afghanistan
With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 upon us—and having been a Pentagon official that day—excuse me for being a little on edge about Team Biden’s plans for beating down any terrorist threat that might be brewing in the new, hard-line Afghanistan. With the fall of the Afghan government, in some ways, it feels like we’ve… -
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Media Coaches Democrats, Trashes Republicans
After the Labor Day weekend, Joe Scarborough sat on the set of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and told the Democrats that to succeed in the midterms, it was essential that they somehow repeal “40 years of Reaganism” by passing a massive expansion of government disguised as an “infrastructure” package. “I remember hearing [President Joe] Biden’s speech… -
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Don’t Fall for Biden’s Rhetoric on Texas. He Is Not the Advocate of Women He Claims to Be.
President Joe Biden recently called the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain in effect “an unprecedented assault on women’s constitutional rights.” Biden went on to say that he is prepared to react to “assaults on women’s rights” during his presidency. Unfortunately, the president’s track record makes it abundantly clear…