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opinion
Populist Rage and Woke Folly: Le Figaro Interviews Mario Loyola
On June 12, 2025, the leading French newspaper Le Figaro published an extended interview with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mario Loyola. In “Populist Rage and Woke Folly Will Give Rise to an American Synthesis,” Laure Mandeville frames the current moment in American politics as an “apoplectic phase … marked by maximalist posturing and the theatrical… -
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Trump Signs Order Raising Park Fees for Foreign Tourists
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to increase entry fees to U.S. national parks for international visitors in order to “improve services, access, and affordability for Americans.” The order, titled Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks, directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who oversees the National Park Service, to… -
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The End of Patriotism?
America has a major problem: nearly half of Americans—42%— don’t believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of adults say they are either “extremely” or “somewhat” proud to be American. That number has been in steep decline for a decade: In 2004, that number was 91%, and was still 81% as of 2016. Then… -
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The Greatest Enigma: How Christians Solved a Foundational Mystery 1,700 Years Ago
Eighty-five score years ago, our religious forefathers brought forth a new creed, grounded in scripture and dedicated to the proposition that Jesus is both fully God and fully man. Between May and August 325 A.D., Christian leaders across the Roman Empire joined together to debate a central question: What is Jesus’ nature? Contrary to popular… -
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Democrats Uncork Crazy Talk on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named “mainstream” media outlets and fact-checkers won’t care in the slightest. Sen. Bernie Sanders can call the Republicans a Stalinist cult. Rep. Pramila Jayapal can call U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a “terrorist force.” It’s all fair game. Somehow I have… -
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Revive Civics Education for America’s 250th
“America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. Sponsored by the U.S. Semiquincentennial, or the America 250 Commission, the contest invited… -
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Reclaiming American Patriotism: Hazony’s Vision for National Conservatism
Why are Americans losing their patriotism? And what’s the answer to regaining it? National pride dipped to a new low this week. Just 58% of Americans said in a June Gallup poll that they are either “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American. While the record plummet is largely due to a drop in… -
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House Speaker Reveals One Big Beautiful Bill Act is First of Three Reconciliation Bills
While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed after a lengthy and tense period, there will be even more reconciliation bills to follow in the coming months, said House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday today. “We have been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall that would be attached to the next… -
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Can God Stop the Fall of the West?
Someday you could be immortalized in a museum display case—and that’s not a good thing. “All the great civilizations of the past can only be found in three places—museums, in ruins, or in history books … great though they were, they rose, they declined, and they fell,” observes the author, theologian, and social critic, Os… -
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Are China-Linked Organizations Affecting US Environmental Policies?
China-linked entities have their fingerprints on climate lobbying and lawsuits in the U.S., causing alarm among some lawmakers and watchdog organizations. “I don’t know the intentions. But whatever the intentions, policy after policy demonstrably strengthens China and weakens the United States,” Scott Walter, president of the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, told The Daily Signal… -
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Why States Warn Continued UN Funding Hurts Farmers
Eleven state agriculture commissioners called on the Trump administration and Congress to yank funding from United Nations programs that they say are hurting American farmers. “The federal government should stop using American taxpayer dollars to fund the United Nations International Maritime Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the United Nations… -
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What Women Want
Do all women want a “unicorn”? In a pivotal scene in new movie “The Materialists,” the matchmaker heroine tells a handsome man he’s exactly the kind of man her clients are looking for. He’s wealthy, he’s tall, and he doesn’t have a drug problem. He is, she concludes, a “unicorn”—a virtually impossible find and yet… -
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Rebel Ex-DNC Official Hogg’s PAC Endorses Gen Z Candidate in Arizona Race
Former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s political action committee, Leaders We Deserve, has endorsed a Gen Z challenger, Deja Foxx, in an Arizona special congressional primary next week. “Deja Foxx has been holding Republicans’ and career politicians’ feet to the fire since she was 15 years old. She’s an organizer who has carved… -
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Increased Use of Paper Ballots, Electronic Poll Books Could Boost Election Security
A significant shift toward paper ballots and paper records of electronic votes to more easily audit election results, as well as electronic methods to verify registered voters when they show up to vote, could be a boon in providing election security, said Donald Palmer, chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. These developments also align with… -
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RFK Jr. Cleans House
Following the dismissal of 17 members from a federal vaccine advisory committee in early June, big changes are on the horizon at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Daily Signal spoke with a federal health policy expert about the impact of those changes. Robert Moffit, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s… -
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Dallas Mayor Invites New Yorkers to ‘Sanctuary City From Socialism’
THE CENTER SQUARE—After the self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat primary for mayor in New York, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson invited New Yorkers and others to move to Dallas. Mamdani has vowed to implement a wide range of tax increases on corporations and property and to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter… -
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Unlike Some Adults, These Teen Debaters Aren’t Afraid of ‘The Conversation’
A few weeks ago, Incubate Debate held its national championships in Sarasota, Florida, for middle and high school students. After another year living in the Washington, D.C., bubble, I once again found reason to have faith that our rising generation will not only address but maybe even solve some problems their elders have let fester… -
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What the First 6 Months of the Trump Admin Have Revealed About Our ‘Experts’
The first six months of the Donald Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the Ph.Ds. employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary,… -
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Dems Eye Senate Pickup Opportunity in Bruising Texas GOP Primary Battle
The 2026 Senate race in Texas will be another dramatic showdown, with Democrats again eyeing a major pickup opportunity amid Republican infighting. On Tuesday, Democrat former Rep. Colin Allred launched his 2026 Senate campaign, a comeback bid after losing to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by 8.5 points in 2024. The announcement followed a meeting between… -
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Bush’s, Obama’s ‘Farewell’-Style Wishes for USAID Staff Underscore Washington’s ‘Uniparty’ Culture
Former Presidents George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s farewell messages to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development this week reinforce the perception that critics have called the “uniparty” culture in Washington. On Monday, the staff of USAID received video messages from the two former presidents, along with one from Bono, the ultraliberal Irish…
