Political Commentary & Opinion

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) suffered a well publicized defeat last week when a U.S. District Court rescinded the FSOC’s decision to single out MetLife, Inc. for special regulation. The FSOC had argued that financial distress at MetLife could pose a threat to financial stability in the U.S., but the court decided that the…

Earlier this month, Morocco’s head of counterterrorism, Abdelhak Khiame, warned that the Islamic State (ISIS) is trying to build chemical weapons to use in an attack on Europe. The announcement comes after Moroccan authorities in February discovered components for making a chemical weapon during a raid on an ISIS cell poised for an attack in…

Congratulations, portable air conditioner buyers and sellers. This product now qualifies for… government regulation! The Department of Energy (DOE) recently determined that portable air conditioners meet the criteria set under the Energy Policy Conservation Act (as amended) for efficiency mandates. Like all other efficiency regulations, mandated appliance standards remove choices from individuals and empower Washington…

Women’s advocacy groups have declared today, April 12, “Equal Pay Day”—the alleged day through which women must work to earn the same amount as men in the previous year. But it looks as though the women’s advocacy groups have miscalculated equal pay day. Even based on a very broad measure of pay—one that ignore the types…

Women in the U.S. earn about 20 percent less than men, on average, mostly because they choose different occupations and tend to work fewer hours and years. Pundits and policymakers should not judge people’s individual decisions. But in the area of college grades, there’s room to improve the information available to young adults before they…

In a new book released Tuesday, Heritage Foundation distinguished fellow Kim Holmes reveals how liberals in America have abandoned their traditions and become a force for denying people’s rights and freedoms. Holmes’ book, “The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left,” argues that this trend is threatening not only free…

Radio show host and conservative stalwart Mark Levin sat down with The Daily Signal to talk about the state of the conservative movement during this tumultuous election season. Levin tells me how he believes conservatives can redirect the current wave of populism into conservative policy thinking—what he calls “Americanism.”

Last week, a line was crossed in the ongoing campaign of liberals to criminalize freedom of expression. The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed a decade of materials and work by a private advocacy group that had dared to question the orthodoxy of climate change. The group is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and…

In an exclusive interview, Carly Fiorina talks about 2016 and her campaign, what she learned, and what she thought about the media’s coverage with The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood.

A number of high-profile cases involving international cyberattacks on the U.S. have been unsealed for the public. The incidents, released by the Department of Justice, involve everything from hacking U.S. banks to online hoaxes regarding a terrorist attack, and hacking critical infrastructure sectors—including a defense contractor and a New York dam. Mitigating cybercrimes that originate…