Political Commentary & Opinion

The new superhero movie “Wonder Woman” is blowing away expectations and crashing through glass ceilings with an opening weekend that brought in $100 million domestically—a record for a movie directed by a woman. But here’s another fun fact that shows you can proudly be pro-mom and pro-career woman: Israeli actress Gal Gadot was five months…

Writers never know when something they write will strike a nerve—or, in the common phrase of the internet, “go viral.” Yet my last column, “Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump,” did both. Aside from being reprinted on almost every conservative website, Newsweek published the column, and The New York Times quoted it. More importantly, many major…

News surfaced on Monday that several Gulf states in the Middle East had suddenly cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, a Gulf state that borders Saudi Arabia. The Daily Signal sat down with Luke Coffey, director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, for details. News reports say that several Gulf states…

The House Ways and Means subcommittee on health will host a hearing this week on promoting integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. The committee will review how Medicare Advantage, the program of competing private health plans, is providing services for senior and disabled citizens. This wide-ranging program includes, among other things, Special Needs Plans (SNPs)…

Over the last century, we have seen an exponential growth of the federal bureaucracy. As a practical matter, federal agencies—not Congress—have assumed the primary role in making the policies that affect our lives. Governing by regulation reached unprecedented levels under the Obama administration. In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has taken great strides…

Wednesday’s terror attack in Kabul is a stark reminder of how brutal the war in Afghanistan still is. A suicide truck bomber drove near the German Embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan, the diplomatic heart of Kabul, and then detonated his bomb amid the morning rush-hour traffic. The blast killed at least 90 civilians and wounded…

Social justice warriors seem to have hit a wall in American politics. Perhaps sensing that their attempts to fundamentally transform America through top-down control have reached their limit, they are doubling down on reshaping America from the ground up. Their new favorite target is American history, and they are starting with low-hanging fruit: Confederate monuments….

Anyone who has followed the hyperbolic debate about net neutrality has likely heard that the Federal Communications Commission is moving to “squelch competition,” “limit consumer choice,” “raise prices,” and perhaps even “destroy the internet.” At least, that is what some activists and crusading late-night comedians claim. But none of this is true. Rather, what the…

When I was little, mom would leave detailed lists of chores on the kitchen counter each summer morning for my siblings and me to complete before we could play baseball, ride bikes, or go swimming. And when I arrived at college, basically everyone with whom I became friends, a group from a wide range of…

This month, The Heritage Foundation took its message of economic freedom on the road to Spain. The first stop was the ancient city of Córdoba, a medium-sized town on the Guadalquivir River about 250 miles south of Madrid. It has been part of  the region of Andalucia in the south of the country since the…

You didn’t log on to the internet or switch on cable television in 1788 Boston to obtain breaking news of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. You hiked to the nearest tavern or coffeehouse to pick up a copy of the latest newspaper to learn what—in those days of rudimentary communication—passed for the latest news. When…