Political Commentary & Opinion

The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, chaos erupted when conservative commentator Ben Shapiro spoke at University of California, Berkeley. And a sign reading “Racism is as American as Baseball” was displayed at a Boston…

In 2012, my promotional printing company, Hands on Originals, was approached by a customer to print a message that conflicted with my conscience. When I said no, they sued me. Hi, my name is Blaine Adamson. I got into the T-shirt printing business because I wanted to create Christian shirts that people would want to…

The U.S. tax code is 4 million words long, so it’s no surprise that millions of Americans look for help every year just to keep appraised of the ever-changing, complex maze of laws and regulations—and yet few actually get the help they need. Last year, only a quarter of the more than 100 million taxpayer…

In usual circumstances, going to see someone speak at a university is not expected to be very exciting, but these were not usual circumstances. I, and my friend Christopher Piquette, were going to cover the Ben Shapiro speech at University of California, Berkeley. While Shapiro had spoken at Berkeley in 2016 with little fanfare, this…

The third annual Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty is being held this week in Geneva, Switzerland. As I pointed out on Thursday, many of the nations that are party to the treaty, which purports to require regulation of the conventional arms trade, aren’t even paying their bills. But there’s more to…

Peter Trinko and Christopher Piquette went to University of California, Berkeley to check out the protests ahead of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s speech on Thursday. Here’s what they saw and what some on the scene had to say (please be aware some protesters used curse words): And via Fox News, here’s video of Shapiro’s speech…

Unless you have little to no contact with college sports, you would probably recognize the name of Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney. His Clemson Tigers have competed in the College Football Playoff National Championship game the past two seasons and are the defending national champions. That’s an impressive feat, and it would be easy…

This week, Hope Hicks became communications director for President Donald Trump, joining press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to make the first female-led White House communications team in history. Naturally, this was celebrated in every major female-oriented publication. Just kidding. The announcement came in the form of a promotion for Hicks, who has been serving as…

Reports have surfaced this week that President Donald Trump is negotiating a deal with Democratic leaders to replace Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the immigration policy put in place by President Barack Obama in 2012. The Daily Signal sat down with Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and senior legal fellow…

The nation marks the 230th birthday of our Constitution this weekend. On Sunday, many Americans of all political persuasions who are aware of Constitution Day will praise the Framers of that document and express gratitude that they live under its protections. They will celebrate the fact that we have a representative democracy, where the laws…

In July 2012, two men entered the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado. They asked the owner of the bakery, Jack Phillips, to custom-design a wedding cake for the pair’s same-sex wedding. Phillips offered to sell the couple anything else in his store, even a pre-made cake. But, citing his Christian faith, he declined to design…

Our national debt just topped $20 trillion. That’s 13 zeros, or $20,000,000,000,000. This also means that the federal government now owes almost $1.5 trillion more than the entire U.S. economy produced in 2016. To put this number into context, here are some other things that add up to $20 trillion: So how exactly did we…