Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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Teen Vogue Promotes Radical Sexual Agenda to Its Young Audience
Teen Vogue churned out a variety of highly explicit sexual material for its teenage audience in 2019. The publication has been described as a “glossy” magazine “aimed at teenage girls” that has recently stepped forward into the political spectrum to criticize President Donald Trump. But in 2019, Teen Vogue also offered teenagers a chance to discover “How… -
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Why Congress Should Reject Amnesty for Illegal Agricultural Workers
The House just passed a massive amnesty bill that would give millions of illegal agricultural workers and their spouses and children a pathway to citizenship. Proponents of the legislation, known as the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, try to use concerns for farmers and agricultural labor shortages as a pretext for what is first and foremost… -
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California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work
If there’s one thing the California government is good for these days, it’s failing to address crises that glaringly exist while creating new crises that shouldn’t exist—and then shifting the blame when everything goes wrong. A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation… -
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The Air Force Needs More Aircraft Now
The Air Force can bring firepower to bear much faster than its sister services and can take out targets in the air, on land, and at sea. But just how much air power does the nation need? The National Defense Strategy directed all services to prepare for a large-scale, high-intensity conventional war with China or Russia, and… -
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Top 10 Hits and Misses of Foreign Policy in 2010s
What a difference a decade makes. In 2010, we got the Arab Spring and Obamacare. Neither turned out as well as we had hoped. We got iPads, iPhone 4, and Angry Birds. Tech has definitely moved on. What about America’s foreign policy? It had its ups and downs. Here is a list of the top 10 foreign policy hits and… -
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Help Us Produce Real News
As conservatives, we know the facts are on our side. But it’s not easy to communicate those facts—especially in a hostile environment with so many liberal-leaning media outlets. What’s more, good, original, compelling journalism is time-consuming and expensive. Producing “real news” involves a lot of fact-checking, editing, and rigorous research—and involves competition against outlets with… -
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Give, Don’t Govern
This week, children may learn about that greedy man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is selfish until ghosts scare him into thinking about others’ well-being, not just his own. Good for the ghosts. But the way Scrooge addresses others’ needs matters. Today’s advocates of equality, compassion, increased spending on education, health care, etc., say “we care” but… -
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Climate Change Protesters’ Traffic Tie-Ups Are No Way to Win Friends or Influence People
The environmental zealots who regularly take to the streets of the nation’s capital for climate change protests clearly have never read Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help bestseller “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” That’s evident from the demonstrations the global warming alarmists stage at downtown D.C. intersections during morning rush hours, unapologetically snarling traffic and… -
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Transgender Athletes Playing Competitive Sports Was a Rising Policy Issue in 2019
The year 2019 saw an uptick in male athletes besting females in female-only sports, citing their transgender identity. Now, lawmakers in three states—Washington, Tennessee, and Georgia—have proposed legislation that would place restrictions on transgender athletes in sports. Might legislation quell this new wave of transgender activism and make sports fair again? The Tennessee Star reports… -
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Uncle Sam Is Picking Your Pocket With High Taxes. Democrats Want to Raise Them Even Higher.
Some politicians running for federal office make it sound as if the biggest problem facing our country is that we don’t send enough of our paychecks to Washington, D.C. They propose increasing or creating new federal taxes on income, payrolls, business profits, carbon emissions, financial transactions, wealth, and more. Before they start trying to spend more and more of… -
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How Your Donations Helped Us Bring Selina Soule’s Story to Millions
In 2019, The Daily Signal team found an underreported story on one of the most controversial social issues of our time—biological boys participating in girls sports. In the 2017-18 season, a high school junior in Connecticut named Selina Soule missed qualifying for the New England track and field regionals by two spots in her top… -
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Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got in 2019
San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a… -
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Recalling the Battle of the Bulge
Seventy-five years ago, at the Battle of the Bulge (fought from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945), the United States suffered more casualties than in any other battle in its history. Some 19,000 Americans were killed, 47,500 wounded, and 23,000 reported missing. The American and British armies were completely surprised by a last-gasp German… -
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These Former Intelligence Chiefs Fit Perfectly Into Our Media Advocacy Culture
Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common. One, they ran the nation’s key intelligence and investigatory agencies under President Barack Obama. They were deeply involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax. And they participated… -
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Understanding Democrats’ March Toward Electoral Defeat
After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, becoming the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why?… -
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Staying Safe and Keeping the Season Bright
As much as we’d like to relax and just enjoy the holiday season—the shopping, the music, the tastes, and the scents—we unfortunately must not lose sight, even for a minute, of the threat posed by terrorism. On Black Friday—the traditional opening of the Christmas shopping season—the world witnessed its 58th terrorist stabbing attack in London,… -
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For Taxpayers, College Football Remains a Guilty Pleasure at Christmastime
With Christmastime comes college football’s bowl season, with games all day, nearly every day. Starting last Friday with Buffalo against Charlotte in the Bahamas (1,235 miles from Buffalo, 733 miles from Charlotte), college football graces the airwaves until Jan. 6. After two straight weeks of football, viewers will get a seven-day break until the national… -
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The First Time a Bold New Yorker Got Impeached for Taking on the Swamp
This Manhattanite came to office with a big reform agenda, ready to toss out the old establishment and fight corruption. He asserted: “Political conventions must go.” And: “Disgraceful secret alliances between special privileges and crooked politics must cease.” But reforming an old, entrenched system had its price. The system pushed back with impeachment, prompting the… -
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Tucker Carlson’s False and Misleading Claims About The Heritage Foundation
In a segment that aired Friday night, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson made several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation. For nearly 50 years, The Heritage Foundation has represented the interests of the American people based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values, and a strong…