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
Harris’ Strategy? Avoid Serious Scrutiny as Long as Possible. Will It Work?
To call the past eight weeks in presidential politics unprecedented would be a wild understatement. It was just over two months ago when President Joe Biden—a man deemed highly successful and mentally sharp by our legacy media—took to the stage to debate his predecessor, Donald Trump, and promptly expired. It took another month for Biden… -
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Is Kamala Harris Lying About Backing EV Mandates?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team said Tuesday it’s a “lie” that she supports electric vehicle mandates, but her record on the issue suggests the opposite. The Harris campaign blasted out an email ahead of Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s Tuesday visit to Michigan, with campaign communications official Ammar Moussa writing that Vance would… -
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Massive Void Emerges in Pacific as US Shuffles Warships to Middle East
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The recent departure of U.S. warships from the Pacific leaves a strategic void in the crucial region as forces turn their attention to the Middle East. The USS Lincoln Strike Group, which consists of a fleet of warships and fighter jets led by an aircraft carrier, arrived last week at the U.S. Central Command,… -
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Almost Half of NYC Bus Riders Don’t Pay. Blame Progressivism.
This is the headline of an article published Aug. 26 in The New York Times: “Fare Evasion Surges on N.Y.C. Buses, Where 48% of Riders Fail to Pay.” The article begins: “Every weekday in New York City, close to 1 million bus riders—roughly one out of every two passengers—board without paying. “Fare evasion has led… -
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A Year After Hawaii Fire, Rebuilding Has Barely Begun
Cleanup after wildfires is inherently more difficult than recovery from other natural disasters, according to Brian Cavanaugh, a visiting fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and homeland security at The Heritage Foundation. Unlike a hurricane, which mainly creates wind and water damage, Cavanaugh says, fires damage the structural integrity of buildings and often leave dangerous chemicals behind. … -
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Evangelicals ‘More Likely to Be Shaped by Culture Than to Influence It,’ Report Says
George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, released new data earlier this month that “reveals the limitations of Christian evangelicalism in American society.” The events from recent years have caused “millions of Americans to realize just how depraved American society has become,” the report stated. “Corrupt politicians, dishonest journalists and media outlets,… -
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How Federal Prison Officials May Violate State Laws by Registering Inmates to Vote
Federal government officials have promoted voter registration and voting for prison inmates that might be inconsistent—or outright violate—state laws on prisoner voting and restoration of felons’ voting rights, legal experts say. As The Daily Signal has reported, an executive order signed in 2021 by President Joe Biden directs every federal agency to help boost voter… -
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WATCH: Winning 2024 by ‘Any Means Necessary’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the worst dumpster fire of a political scandal in decades: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. After Americans have been told for years that the government wasn’t pressuring social media companies to censor certain political opinions, Matt Taibbi’s “Twitter… -
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RFK Jr. Didn’t Leave Democratic Party. It Left Him.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has effectively quit the race and endorsed former President Donald Trump, popping media heads across America. This is obviously great news for Trump’s odds of winning come November. But it’s even more… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Scores Bill Defining Male, Female as Key Vote
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Action for America is treating the Defining Male and Female Act, a bill that would define sex based on biology, as a key vote in scoring how lawmakers stand on issues of concern to conservatives. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the legislation at the end of July to establish in federal… -
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Government-Encouraged Censorship of Conservatives May Only Get Worse
The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path. Now, Democrats are free to double down on the Biden-Harris administration’s massive censorship enterprise. There is every indication they intend to do so. The bedrock of American democracy, the First Amendment,… -
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Why Did Advocate of Diversity and Nuclear Disarmament Get Key Job in This Nuclear Security Agency?
The Biden-Harris administration announced early this year that Sneha Nair would become a special assistant in the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which is the government agency charged with building the nation’s nuclear warheads and maintaining its nuclear stockpile. What the National Nuclear Security Administration does is one of the most critical elements—and technically… -
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Secret Service Has ‘Routinely’ Misled American Public, Ex-Congressman Says
The Secret Service has a “culture of deception,” former Rep. Jason Chaffetz says. “What they tell the public has routinely been inaccurate, if not an outright lie,” said Chaffetz, a Republican who represented Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and who is now a visiting fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The former congressman made his… -
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Are We Already In a Recession?
The U.S. is racing toward a national debt of $36 trillion and will likely surpass this benchmark before the end of the year, according to public finance economist EJ Antoni. In homes across the country, Americans are indirectly feeling the weight of the national debt through inflation, and Antoni, who serves as a research fellow… -
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Harris Plays Coy on Child Gender Transitions, But Far-Left Groups Endorsing Child Sex Changes Have Her Back
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has avoided addressing whether she supports transgender surgeries for minors—a far-left position that most Americans do not support. Yet a number of LGBTQ groups that endorse attempted gender transition procedures for children are eagerly backing Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. A few of these top LGBTQ groups are… -
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COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic
When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit. Arguably, however, the commission’s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was “totally preventable,” in the… -
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DNC Protesters Are Symptomatic of a Culture Committing Suicide
My colleague Tony Kinnett captured a rather revealing declaration at the anti-Israel protests in Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention this past week. A protester shouted, “Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation.” This leftist gobbledygook is nonsensical on its face (abortion isn’t exactly legal under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and legal protections on abortion… -
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WATCH: RFK Jr. Turns Harris-Walz Sugar High Into Caffeine Crash
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” back from our live coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we discuss Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the presidency as he drops out of the race, sort of. Are we really going to see any difference in the polls nationally? What… -
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GW Braces for New Pro-Palestine Protests in Nation’s Capital
Classes are underway again at The George Washington University in the nation’s capital amid renewed anti-Israel demonstrations on campus. DMV Students for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of anti-Israel, pro-Palestine groups, led a march through GW’s campus Thursday night, demonstrating outside the home of university President Ellen Granberg. Classes resumed Thursday at GW. Last spring,… -
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Yes, Kamala’s Price Controls Lead to Socialism
“Kamala Harris Is No Communist, Socialist, or Nixon,” Jill Lawrence assures us. OK. But are we sure? Not that anyone’s asked me, but as someone who regularly accuses progressives of being “commies,” I think I can help shed some light on why many voters are getting the wrong idea. For one thing, handing self-professed socialists…