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
Restoring a Culture of Life: How the Administration Is Prioritizing Life and Conscience Rights
This article is an excerpt from the 2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration. It looks back at the policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of Mandate 2020 here. Since publication of the last Mandate, the Trump administration has taken… -
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The State of Race in America Today and Yesterday
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone’s wildest dreams. In 1936, most black people lived in gross material poverty and racial discrimination. Such poverty… -
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Leftists Blame America. Decent People Blame Themselves.
As long ago as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war in Vietnam but against America—”Amerika,” as many spelled it, the “imperialist,” “colonialist,” “mass-murdering” country—I kept wondering what made these people so hostile to the freest country in human history. Then,… -
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How US Marshals Rescued 39 Missing Children in Georgia
The U.S. Marshals Service found 39 missing children in Georgia over two weeks in a mission called Operation Not Forgotten. The rescued children “were considered to be some of the most at-risk and challenging recovery cases in the area,” the agency said. How did Georgia state officials work with the Marshals Service to rescue these… -
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Your Right to Vote Is Sacred. Don’t Give It Up.
The right to vote is among the most sacred rights we have as Americans. It is fundamental to our democracy. I’m old enough to remember when the mantra about elections was “every vote counts and every vote must be counted.” Now, we keep hearing that election fraud is nothing to worry about so long as… -
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Under Jihadi Siege, Christians in West Africa Are Praying for a Miracle
“One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso,” the The Washington Post reported, “and ordered people who had been chatting outside to lie down. Then the armed strangers checked everyone’s necks, searching for jewelry. They found four men wearing crucifixes—Christians. They executed them … .” Burkina Faso is one of several vulnerable African… -
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The Future of America’s Shopping Malls
Retail plays a significant role within the nation’s economic health. About 17 million Americans work for brick-and-mortar stores, according to Abby Jagoda, vice president of government affairs at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, which specializes in owning, developing, and managing retail assets. And despite the narrative that retail is dying to e-commerce, she says, sales at physical stores have… -
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Here Are 31 Times the Media Justified or Explained Away Rioting and Looting After George Floyd’s Death
Dozens of news outlets published content that either justified or explained away rioting and looting in the initial weeks of unrest following the police custody death of George Floyd in late May, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. While President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have both condemned rioting and looting,… -
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39 Photos Capture America’s Summer of Riots, Arson, and Looting
Violent riots and looting have spread like an infectious disease across America in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Rioters’ demands for justice quickly spiraled into calls to defund police departments across America. Demonstrators have set businesses on fire, looted shops, and carried out planned attacks against police… -
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‘Beyond Shameful’: Emotional Salon Owner Rips Into Pelosi for Claiming She Was Set Up
San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious said Thursday that it is “beyond shameful” for Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accuse Kious of setting her up. “For the speaker of the House of the United States to go on TV and falsely claim she was set up and publicly defame me and send… -
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DC Mayor’s Attempt to Shift Blame Falls Flat
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser can’t decide what she wants. A year ago, she advocated for criminal justice measures that even The Washington Post’s editorial board decried as having “gone too far,” a situation where “common sense may be losing out to enthusiasm for reform.” But this past week, she attempted to pass herself off as… -
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How American Civil Society Depends on Marriage, Family
American civil society is facing a serious domestic threat: Marriage is declining and family stability with it. Between 1962 and 2019, the percentage of women ages 15 to 44 who were married fell by nearly 30%, according to a recent report from the Social Capital Project of the congressional Joint Economic Committee Republicans. The number… -
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Iraq War Veteran Likens Portland to Living in a War Zone
Gabe Johnson, an African American Marine Corps veteran, was lying in bed counting the number of explosions he could hear from his downtown Portland, Oregon, home July 18 and into the next morning. “I just started counting,” Johnson, 49, told The Daily Signal. “I was like, ‘Hmm, I wonder how many there are going to… -
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The Difference Between Plurality of Opinions and Plurality of Values
I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War. America has always been about freedom of expression. And that freedom has often led to protests and tension. Generally, we’ve gotten through… -
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Pro Athletes Ignore Facts, Stats, and Data When Denouncing ‘Systemic Police Brutality’
Reacting to the shooting of a black man by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop, a tearful Doc Rivers, the black NBA Los Angeles Clippers coach, held a post-game press conference. Rivers said: All you hear is Donald Trump and all of them talking about fear. We’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot…. -
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The Lesson Behind Falwell’s Fall
The ouster of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. over allegations of sexual misconduct and other behavior that falls short of the university’s code of conduct—not to mention Scripture—is another in a long list of object lessons each generation of Christians seems to have to learn anew. In our 1999 book, “Blinded by Might: Why… -
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Portland Mayor to Move Out of $800K Condo After Rioters Damage Building
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is moving out of his home after rioters descended Monday on the building that houses the Democrat’s $800,000 condo, setting fires and breaking windows, according to a news report. Wheeler sent an email Tuesday to other residents in his high-rise condo building saying that finding a different home would be “best… -
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Kosovo-Serbia Talks at the White House Aim at Normalization of Relations
The U.S. will host Avdullah Hoti, the prime minister of Kosovo, and Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Serbia, on Friday for talks on normalizing relations. The Trump administration had originally planned the talks for June 27, but they were postponed after the indictment on June 24 of Hashim Thaci, Kosovo’s president, on war crimes charges…. -
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In Foreboding Ruling, Appeals Court Says Transgender Students May Use Restroom of Choice
A federal court decided last week that schools can’t ban students from using the restroom that matches their desired gender identity, in what BuzzFeed News called “a significant legal win for transgender rights.” The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit comes five years after Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester… -
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Problematic Women: Sen. Marsha Blackburn Explains Why She Is Unapologetically a Conservative Woman
Progressive society appears to be at a loss when it comes to understanding conservative women. Women who are pro-life, in favor of smaller government, and uphold traditional family values don’t fit the left’s mold. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has just released a new book, “The Mind of a Conservative Woman: Seeking the Best for Family…