Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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opinion
A Kamala Harris Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare
Expect Kamala Harris’ Justice Department to wage Green New Deal lawfare if she is elected president on Nov. 5. As with every last issue pertaining to this election, Harris has not said much about the substance of her climate policy. But a review of her record suggests she’d be amenable to unleashing the Justice Department… -
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Cancel Culture Comes for Kids: Nanny Network Won’t Work With Heritage Foundation
Imagine if Trump hotels required parents to show proof of past Republican votes before allowing those parents to use the hotel’s child care services. No doubt there’d be an outcry over the weaponization of children, of using them as pawns to strong-arm a political vision. Doesn’t every child—regardless of what her parents believe—deserve to be… -
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P’Nut Story Is Fauci-ism in a Nutshell
The death of a squirrel has somehow intruded on the news cycle in the relentless last days of a presidential election. Last week, the New York state government seized P’Nut the pet squirrel and a pet raccoon named Fred from owners Mark and Daniela Longo in Pine City, New York, in what was reportedly a… -
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Musk’s $1M Giveaways Allowed to Continue
Tech mogul Elon Musk’s America PAC faced legal scrutiny for offering financial incentives for voters to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. Some saw the legal challenge in Philadelphia as a partisan double-standard against Musk, and on Monday, a municipal judge there rejected the local district attorney’s call for halting the giveaways…. -
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The New Kennedy-Nixon Moment: Why Politicians Must Master Podcasts to Win
Jeff Bezos is right. Americans do not trust the news media, but he misunderstands why. Americans are tired of talking heads and the opinions of editorialists masquerading as journalists. But this should not be confused with declining interest in news or politics; viewers are simply moving to channels where they can get an unfiltered view… -
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‘DEFAMATORY’: Swing-State Newspaper Issues Embarrassing Correction After Branding Conservative a ‘Hate Group’
D.A. King, an immigration enforcement activist whose defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center is proceeding in court, sent a legal demand letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, requesting a correction when the newspaper called his organization an "anti-immigration hate group." The newspaper, which skews liberal, issued a correction Friday and admitted King's legal victory… -
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These 2 Battleground Counties May Choose Our Next President
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—In battleground Michigan, two swing counties may determine which presidential candidate will clinch the state's 15 Electoral College votes. Oakland and Kent counties have undergone major demographic changes over the past two decades. Both used to be Republican strongholds, but growth in the Detroit suburbs and the city of Grand Rapids turned the… -
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The Final Choice: Civilizational Arson Versus Civilizational Sanity
Every four years, we hear a refrain that the presidential election before us is the “most important election of our lifetimes.” This line is reflexively repeated by pundits, talkers, and thinkers on both sides of the American political divide, and that repetition always engenders a great deal of backlash. We are reliably informed that our… -
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‘I’m Scared Sh–less.’ Why Women’s March Protesters Say They ‘Won’t Go Back’
“We can’t go back to Donald Trump,” Julie Drizin told The Daily Signal on Saturday at the “We Won’t Go Back”-themed Women’s March in Washington, D.C. Sporting a “RESIST” pin on her right side, a “FEMINIST AF” and transgender flag pin on her right side, and holding a Trump baby balloon, Drizin added, “We can’t… -
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The British Submarine Problem and What It Means to US Security
British Royal Navy attack submarines are tasked with monitoring Russian submarine movements in the North Atlantic and serve as one of the first lines of Russian deterrence that profoundly benefits the United States. Such monitoring is especially critical to U.S. national security because Russia boasts a robust submarine force that has exercised heightened submarine activity… -
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Harris Is Ending Her Campaign With Lies and Smears
In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing former President Donald Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments. Yet in the modern era, it was not Trump who put large numbers of U.S…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Schools Secretly Remove LGBTQ Book Amid Explicit Images Controversy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Public schools in a Northern Virginia county have quietly removed a pro-LGBTQ book after parents criticized it for sexually explicit images, The Daily Signal has learned. Fairfax County Public Schools in the Washington, D.C., suburbs confirmed in emails to parent Stacy Langton that school libraries across the county had removed the… -
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Desperate Leftist Media Wildly Distort Trump’s Liz Cheney Comments
Haters of former President Donald Trump are spinning their latest distortion after Trump’s interview Thursday night with commentator Tucker Carlson. Trump’s argument was that he thinks former Rep. Liz Cheney and other neocons are quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them with no regard for the lives lost. The Kamala Harris… -
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Garbage In/Garbage Out
On Sunday, a comedian opening the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden made a joke about Puerto Rico being a garbage island. On Monday, that was all the American press corps could talk about. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden declared former President Donald Trump’s supporters were garbage, and all the media could talk about on… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Female Law Students Punished for Saying Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Bathrooms
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of two female law students who expressed concerns about men accessing women’s restrooms at George Mason University’s law school. Third-year law students Selene Cerankosky and Maria Arcara expressed concerns after a male classmate informed the Antonin Scalia Law School Class of 2025… -
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Michigan Is a Road to the White House, Rep. Huizenga Says
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan. “It’s interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the road to the White House, the road to the Senate [Republican] majority, and the road… -
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Fact-Checking Kamala Harris’ Phoenix Speech
Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally Thursday in Phoenix, making a finish-line pitch to voters in a key swing state ahead of next Tuesday’s presidential election. Harris mostly focused on themes she has hit during her campaign and in recent speeches. The vice president said she is for protecting “democracy,” Trump is about punishing… -
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Phoenix on Fire: Rising Prices Burn Arizonans
Residents of Phoenix are feeling the heat, and it’s not just the weather. Instead, it’s the relentless rise in inflation that has tightened its grip on household budgets, forcing many to reevaluate their spending and lifestyle choices. The current financial reality has become painfully clear: The American dream has become a distant memory, seemingly out… -
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When in a Hole, Kamala Keeps Digging
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the possible effects of Vice President Kamala Harris’ resolute decision to continue diving deeper into divisive politics and far-left rhetoric as the contested Nov. 5 election draws near. Speaking of Nov. 5, join us beginning at 6 p.m. EST that fateful Tuesday evening for… -
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What Kamala Harris and Henry VIII Have in Common
Vice President Kamala Harris and the 16th-century British monarch Henry VIII share at least one trait in common: The belief that the government can force an individual to act against his conscience and in violation of his faith. Henry VIII demonstrated this in his treatment of St. Thomas More. More, a brilliant lawyer, experienced a…