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‘We Have the Support of the President.’ For These Americans, Human Trafficking at the Border Is a Form of Political Activism.
An increasing number of U.S. citizens—who consider themselves “political activists”—are taking money from Mexican cartels to receive illegal immigrants into the U.S. from the Mexican border and smuggle them into the interior of the United States. They do so believing that President Joe Biden condones their actions, thanks to his administration’s rhetoric and policies on… -
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To Counter Learning Loss, We Need to Empower Students, Not Systems
When 56.4 million American students moved from in-person to online learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, educators feared how the country’s minority and low-income students would fare. Their concern—that America’s most vulnerable children would fall behind—has become a reality. About 3 million of the country’s most marginalized students have not… -
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Philadelphia Isn’t Los Angeles: Putting a Rogue Prosecutor’s Primary Win Into Context
Philadelphia’s rogue prosecutor, Larry Krasner, won the Democratic primary in his quest for reelection. He ran against a relatively weak, underfunded opponent, but one who promised, if elected, to restore law and order to the DA’s office and tackle exploding crime rates in Philadelphia. Krasner, one of several George Soros-backed rogue prosecutors in the country,… -
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Finished Before He Started: One Techie’s Canceling by Woke Apple
A San Francisco Bay Area-based entrepreneur might have broken the record for the quickest cancellation in history, with Reuters reporting his firing less than 48 hours after he was hired by Apple to work on its fledging advertising program. Like seemingly every other large company these days, Apple bent the knee to a vocal minority… -
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Never Let a Plague Go to Waste
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them. They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into nursing homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable. Their rules for prosecuting those who… -
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More Economic Freedom in Balkans Requires Reducing Government Corruption
The U.S. sanctions recently slapped on Albania’s former prime minister for corruption represent the latest in a string of events highlighting shortfalls in government integrity in the Balkans. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained that Sali Berisha, Albania’s prime minister from 2005 to 2013, was “involved in corrupt acts.” Blinken specified “misappropriation of public… -
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Why Rep. Chip Roy Aims to Defund Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
Rep. Chip Roy recently introduced a bill to withhold federal funds from any schools that teach critical race theory. The Texas Republican lawmaker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about the bill, how critical race theory is affecting what children learn in schools, what parents can do to make sure their kids aren’t being taught… -
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What Being a New Congresswoman Is Really Like: Rep. Kat Cammack Explains
From fighting against the far-left agenda, to policy review sessions early in the morning and late at night, to baseball practice with colleagues, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., says her first six months as a House member have been anything but boring. There is a “side of being a member of Congress that a lot of… -
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11 Takeaways From Fauci’s Emails About COVID-19
More than 3,000 pages of emails last year from Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s most famous health official, are now public and prompting calls for a congressional investigation or even his ouster. The emails from the first half of 2020 reveal Fauci’s skepticism early on about masks to ward off COVID-19, his dismissal of the notion… -
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The Muddled Thinking of ‘Anti-Racism’
This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” has undoubtedly made a fortune by indicting those who disagree with him as complicit in American racism—and by providing partial absolution to those who repeat his cultish… -
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North Korean Cyberattacks Pose Threat to US
A U.S. grand jury indicted three North Korean hackers in February on charges of attempting to steal or extort $1.3 billion from international financial institutions and companies. The egregious North Korean cyberattack was hardly an isolated event. Since 2007, the regime in Pyongyang has engaged in cyberespionage, disruptive and destructive attacks, cyberterrorism, and cyber bank… -
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These Transgender Individuals Regret Transitioning. Parents Need to Hear Their Stories.
It’s becoming increasingly common to hear from detransitioners, transgender people who took cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers—or even had surgery—but changed their mind and began living as their biological sex again. Their stories are essential for society to hear, so people know there is another path for those struggling with gender dysphoria. Most of all,… -
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Biden Plans to Reduce the Deficit—in 2030
Americans, President Joe Biden’s budget proposal suggests, should not worry that he plans to significantly increase federal deficits over the next eight years. Why? Because he intends to begin reducing them—but not eliminating them—nine years from now. Of course, even if the now 78-year-old Biden were to run for reelection in 2024 and win the… -
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Biden’s Tulsa Speech Continues the ‘Can’t Do’ Narrative
President Joe Biden has pledged to “help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies.” He used the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Greenwood, a thriving African American community ravaged by a racist mob in 1921, as the occasion to promise more federal… -
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Georgia Small Businesses Sue MLB Over Moving All-Star Game
Woke corporations are learning the hard way that their social activism has a price. Monday, Major League Baseball was slapped with a $1.1 billion lawsuit for pulling the 2021 all-star game out of Atlanta. The Job Creators Network, an organization that advocates for small businesses, filed the lawsuit—arguing that the MLB’s decision cost Georgia businesses $100 million… -
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Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars
If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins. President Joe Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma,… -
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7 Ways to Survive Cancel Culture
As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative. Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American… -
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The Hunter Biden Omission Perseveres
Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop will be ignored by the “mainstream media.” To be fair, when they didn’t ignore the story back then, they constantly implied it was a Russian disinformation plot. On… -
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Power-Hungry Oregon Politicians Ignore CDC Guidance, Stalling Return to Normalcy
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance three weeks ago advising that fully vaccinated people could largely resume normal activities without masking, many saw it as the light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the CDC’s May 13 guidance is just that and, thanks to… -
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How COVID-19 Could Help Working Women
Women have come a long way in the labor force. Much of women’s gains have consisted of steady progress in education, labor force participation, and earnings. But historical events have also played a role, including the surge in their labor force participation during World War II. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic might mark another such…