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
The Kind of Leaders Needed to Save America
I’ve been involved in the conservative movement for over 30 years. One reason I’ve been doing it so long is because I know that conservatives have the solutions to the most pressing problems America faces. We have the research and the data on how to eliminate most poverty, how to shore up the education gap,… -
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Conservatives Call Foul on Baseball’s Hypocrisy Over Georgia Election Law
Republican lawmakers are pushing back against Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta because of Georgia’s new election law based on discredited claims that it suppresses voting. In a letter Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., asked MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred whether the league would give up doing business in China or… -
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Media’s All-In Campaign to Destroy Filibuster
As we speak, there is no bill on the congressional docket that would provide Democrats an excuse to blow up the filibuster—or, as the media might euphemistically refer to it, “reforming” or “overhauling” the filibuster. Yet, a casual follower of politics would surely be under the impression that there is a pressing battle unfolding because… -
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US Enters Multilateral Minefield in Indirect Nuclear Talks With Iran
The Biden administration has agreed to meet for indirect talks with Iran in Vienna on Tuesday. The talks, brokered by the European Union, will involve all of the parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Both the Biden administration and Tehran had declared their willingness to revive… -
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For Holy Week, CBS News Throws ‘Gay Underworld’ Allegations at Catholic Church
On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. But for CBS News, Palm Sunday is an occasion to throw wild, tabloidish allegations at the Catholic Church. “Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley began the March 28 program saying: “Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity’s Holy Week…. -
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‘Zuckerbucks’ in Pennsylvania Reveal Impact of Corporate Influence in Elections
All eyes were on Pennsylvania during the days of ballot counting following the November presidential election, as allegations and rumors of voting irregularities spread like wildfire. While the results ultimately were upheld, distrust in our representative government remains as does a deep suspicion that elected leaders are legitimate. Before the next election, Pennsylvania needs to look into ways the state can protect… -
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1 Investor With 1 Share Can Call Out Corporate Leftism
You can’t just pick up the phone and take on one of the most powerful CEOs in the world. Or can you? It could be that easy if you own just one share of stock in a publicly traded corporation. It’s a David-versus-Goliath strategy that conservatives don’t use enough to make a difference in the… -
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Fight Left-Wing Lies With Facts
A couple of years ago, I gave a speech before a conservative, predominantly white audience. I couldn’t help but notice a tall, heavyset black man, arms folded, standing in the back. From time to time, I would look at him, only to see him frown and shake his head, I assumed disapprovingly, when I made… -
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Society Pays When Prosecutors Fail to Punish Crime
Imagine a society where prostitutes could solicit johns for sex just yards from police officers who did little more than wave them on their way. Picture yourself walking through a park with your children as a homeless person is free to urinate and defecate beside the park bench where he is stashing the illegal drugs… -
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GOP Probes $35 Million in Tax Dollars to ‘Team Biden’ Firm in California
House Republicans say they still want to know why $35 million in taxpayer dollars went to a Democrat-aligned consulting firm to boost voting last year in California—and whether it was even legal. The federal agency that oversees related issues seems uninterested in investigating why federal money sent to California was used in part to pay… -
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Branding Georgia Election Law, Senate Filibuster ‘Racist’ Is Vile Tactic to Justify HR 1
President Joe Biden, his fellow liberals, and his friends in the national news media are purposely—and cynically—misrepresenting Georgia’s new election reform law, and it’s a key part of a far-reaching strategy that stretches well beyond the borders of the Peach State. They are dishonestly attacking the Georgia legislation as a throwback to the Jim Crow… -
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New York Times Outsources Research to Media Matters
The libertine left and its publicists in the “objective media” have a funny way of writing their lobbying campaigns against troubling traditions such as the “gender binary.” It goes like this: 1. Push the revolution from the fringes by testing the supposedly outdated cultural boundaries—say, the idea of putting trans girls in girls sports. 2…. -
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‘Fertilizer Taxes’ Will Hurt Farmers and Likely Drive Up Food Prices
If the existing trade disputes with China were not bad enough for American farmers, now another trade action could hurt them. It will also likely hurt individuals and businesses throughout the food supply chain. As a result of recent U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission findings, countervailing duties—taxes on imports that have… -
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10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America
Ten new ideas are changing America, maybe permanently: 1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back…. -
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New York Congresswoman Calls on Cuomo to Resign Over Nursing Home Deaths
A New York congresswoman is calling on the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, to resign over his administration’s cover-up of reporting of thousands of COVID-19 deaths in the state’s nursing homes. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said she called on the three-term governor to step down after Jill DesRosiers, his… -
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The Resegregation of America
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore a growing, insidious ethos overtaking America’s most powerful institutions. Individual merit and reasoned debate are out. “Lived experience” and the hierarchy of group grievance are now what matter most. Even truth is considered meaningless. Narratives are everything. The concept of fundamental human equality, derived from ideas at the heart… -
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Antifa’s Destructive Return Could Have Staying Power
SEATTLE—After weeks of relative silence, Antifa’s destructive activism came roaring back to the Pacific Northwest. And as the trial of a former police officer in the death of a black man is underway 1,650 miles away, this region worries that the violence not only will worsen but threaten to become a permanent fixture. Violence erupted… -
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CNN News Article Says ‘No Consensus Criteria for Assigning Sex at Birth’
A Tuesday CNN news story stated as fact that “there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth” without attribution. The CNN story, written by breaking news reporter Devan Cole, was about Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s battle with state lawmakers over HB 1217, a bill that seeks to ban biological males from women’s… -
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Explains His State’s New Election Law: What’s in It, What Isn’t
The state of Georgia enacted election reform legislation, signed into law last week, that has drawn harsh criticism from the left. President Joe Biden and others have likened it to the Jim Crow era. What does the election law accomplish, and how is Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp responding to the criticism? “The bill makes it… -
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Gov. Noem’s Disappointing Refusal to Support Girls and Women’s Sports
Gov. Kristi Noem has just let down the girls and women of South Dakota. It wasn’t a total surprise. Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, announced earlier this month she would not sign the legislation, designed to “promote continued fairness in women’s sports,” that the Legislature passed. The provision would ensure that girls and…