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The U.S. government announced on Friday a unilateral arms embargo on the war-torn East African country of South Sudan. The embargo will not end the terrible fighting in the world’s newest country, now at war for the majority of its existence, but it should make it harder for South Sudan’s armed groups to devastate the…

A misguided bill in Congress would turn thousands of people who bought flamethrowers last month into criminals, once again illustrating America’s overcriminalization problem. In January, Elon Musk, creator of Tesla and SpaceX, sold a limited supply of 20,000 flamethrowers at $500 each to advertise and raise funds for his transportation-tunnel drilling business, the Boring Company….

With his Twitter account, President Donald Trump jumped into the national health care debate this week, tweeting: The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical…

Some couples and individuals are trying to save the next generation from potential climate change disaster by forgoing reproduction altogether. A dozen people aged 18 to 43, either raising children or considering having some, are deciding that the future is too uncertain, or certainly too grim, to bring new life into the world as floods, wildfires, and…

We may be 16 years removed from 9/11, but make no mistake—terrorists are still trying to enter the United States. Kirstjen Nielsen, the new secretary of Homeland Security, made it clear as day in a recent speech on her department’s anti-terror efforts: On an average day, [Homeland Security] encounters seven individuals on the terrorist watch…

In his 1989 farewell address to the American people, President Ronald Reagan corrected the simplistic notion that he was simply a great communicator by saying: “I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things,” gathered from “our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in principles that have guided us for two centuries.” But Reagan…

The following interview was conducted by The Christian Post and has been republished with permission. How did we get to this point in our country where a child decides what gender they should be? In your opinion, what was the pivot point? The immediate pivot point was Obergefell v. Hodges. After LGBT activists had redefined…

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The Daily Signal’s Facebook show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week— many of which went misreported by the mainstream media and some of which weren’t reported at all. This week, Republicans on the House intelligence committee agreed to release the declassified memo. We breakdown all of the misinformation from the mainstream…

Today, the Trump administration’s released its long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review. Already, myths of a nuclear Armageddon have monopolized the media space. In reality, the review is a balanced document carefully weighing the impact of dangerous international trends like a resurgent Russia and an aggressive China on U.S. nuclear posture. The recommendations in the review, if implemented, will…

Occupational licensing, the system wherein workers need a government permission slip to work in certain regulated professions, has drawn attention and scrutiny from supporters of economic freedom. Burdensome licensing regulations—such as the thousands of training hours most states require to become a barber or cosmetologist—have been found in previous research to raise consumer costs, limit opportunities for aspiring…