Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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What Florida’s New Tech Law Means for Conservatives Online
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill on targeting social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, for their repeated and aggressive suppression of conservative speech. The legislation would fine social media companies if they deplatform candidates for state office during election season, as well as make it easier for private citizens to sue tech giants. DeSantis has firsthand experience of tech companies censoring… -
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Networks Program Children With LGBT Agenda During Pride Month
Lots of parents today wouldn’t think twice about sitting their kids down in front of the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. And that, conservatives warn, is exactly the problem. Like so many other moms and dads, they’re expecting the same kind of harmless storylines they watched in the ‘70s and ‘80s. What their children are… -
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How Pro-Lifers in This Texas Town Beat Planned Parenthood
Just one month after Lubbock, Texas, became the state’s largest sanctuary city for the unborn (and the only sanctuary city for the unborn with an active abortion clinic), Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas last week agreed to stop performing abortions within the city limits. This announcement came after a federal district judge dismissed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, citing lack of standing…. -
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High Court Gets It Right: Prosecute Hacking, Not Terms of Service Violations
Millions of Americans are no longer in danger of committing a federal crime when they check sports scores at work, fib in an online dating profile, or use a pseudonym on Facebook, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision last Thursday in Van Buren v. United States. Van Buren posed the question of whether the 1986… -
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Conservatives Score Big Against NCAA
For the refused-to-be-canceled crowd, it was a headline to celebrate. “The NCAA threatened states over anti-transgender bills,” the big print of The Washington Post read. “But the games went on.” It was the surest sign in a post-Georgia, Coke-boycotting world that fed-up conservatives were the newest force to be reckoned with. It’s also the most recent… -
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Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Isn’t Really About Building Roads and Bridges
What’s the difference between helping the elderly and building roads? The answer should be obvious, but some members of Congress are having trouble telling the difference. President Joe Biden’s administration is sparring with Republicans over his proposed $1.7 trillion infrastructure spending package, which includes $400 billion allocated to help care for elderly and disabled Americans. It goes without saying… -
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Blame Criminals, Democrat Left for Today’s Crime Surge
Today’s explosion in violent crime parallels the return of 1970s-style inflation and gasoline lines. Wide ties and polyester slacks can’t be far behind. Criminals themselves are the root cause of crime—now and forevermore. But the thugs’ enablers, and sometime cheerleaders, are the root cause of nearly every contemporary American malady: the Democrat left. Liberal Democrats… -
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Jews Can’t Let America Turn Into Another Europe
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sent extra state patrols to Jewish neighborhoods after a rash of attacks, including the beating of a man by a mob in midtown Manhattan, a brick flying through the windows of a kosher pizza store, and “protesters” spitting at and threatening restaurant patrons. Since anti-Jewish attacks in Brooklyn aren’t… -
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San Francisco Shows Leftist Policies Can’t Solve Homelessness
San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,… -
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Black Lives Matter Leader Resigns but Organization’s Radical, Marxist Agenda Continues
Over the last 10 months, Patrisse Cullors led the main Black Lives Matters group to significant success: assembling a $100 million war chest, getting a bill introduced in Congress and critical race theory curricula distributed to unsuspecting children in 14,000 school districts, and achieving enough cultural cachet to partner with the musical “Hamilton.” Yet the… -
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Violent Crime Keeps Surging as More on Left Admit It’s Foolish to ‘Defund Police’
It looks as if the surge in violent crime of 2020 is holding steady and perhaps escalating in 2021. Numbers on violent crime from cities around the country have jumped by historic and unprecedented rates in the past year. This surge is returning many of America’s cities to violent crime rates not seen since the… -
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To Counter Learning Loss, We Need to Empower Students, Not Systems
When 56.4 million American students moved from in-person to online learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, educators feared how the country’s minority and low-income students would fare. Their concern—that America’s most vulnerable children would fall behind—has become a reality. About 3 million of the country’s most marginalized students have not… -
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Philadelphia Isn’t Los Angeles: Putting a Rogue Prosecutor’s Primary Win Into Context
Philadelphia’s rogue prosecutor, Larry Krasner, won the Democratic primary in his quest for reelection. He ran against a relatively weak, underfunded opponent, but one who promised, if elected, to restore law and order to the DA’s office and tackle exploding crime rates in Philadelphia. Krasner, one of several George Soros-backed rogue prosecutors in the country,… -
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Never Let a Plague Go to Waste
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them. They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into nursing homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable. Their rules for prosecuting those who… -
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The Muddled Thinking of ‘Anti-Racism’
This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” has undoubtedly made a fortune by indicting those who disagree with him as complicit in American racism—and by providing partial absolution to those who repeat his cultish… -
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These Transgender Individuals Regret Transitioning. Parents Need to Hear Their Stories.
It’s becoming increasingly common to hear from detransitioners, transgender people who took cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers—or even had surgery—but changed their mind and began living as their biological sex again. Their stories are essential for society to hear, so people know there is another path for those struggling with gender dysphoria. Most of all,… -
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Georgia Small Businesses Sue MLB Over Moving All-Star Game
Woke corporations are learning the hard way that their social activism has a price. Monday, Major League Baseball was slapped with a $1.1 billion lawsuit for pulling the 2021 all-star game out of Atlanta. The Job Creators Network, an organization that advocates for small businesses, filed the lawsuit—arguing that the MLB’s decision cost Georgia businesses $100 million… -
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Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars
If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins. President Joe Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma,… -
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Louisiana Teacher: Why I Spoke Out Against Pushing Gender Ideology
Louisiana high school teacher Jonathan Koeppel spoke out recently against the gender identity ideology being promoted at his school. A video of his remarks at a school board meeting quickly went viral. During the meeting in April, Koeppel played an audio clip for the school board from an education app the school uses, called “BrainPOP,” in… -
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Biden’s Obeisance to Left-Wing Ideology Threatens Public Health
The Biden administration’s adherence to progressive extremism is harming public safety. On May 5, the administration jeopardized the country’s future health when it declared it would ignore the intellectual property rights of the companies that created COVID-19 vaccines. The long-term consequences of this ideological and reckless decision will be far reaching unless we put a…