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Over the last week, the debate over birthright citizenship has divided the 2016 Republican presidential field and put the spotlight back on immigration. Birthright citizenship allows children born in the United States to be granted automatic citizenship, including those born to illegal immigrants. So what are some of the issues surrounding birthright citizenship, and how…

Following the devastating June 17 shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., several black churches across the South have been affected by serious fires. Some in the media labeled the fires as racially motivated arsons. Three of the pastors whose churches were burned in cases of arson spoke to The Daily Signal for an exclusive…

Earlier this week, hundreds gathered in Hayneville, Ala., to remember the life of civil rights activist Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Daniels, 26 at the time of his death, was shot outside a grocery store in Hayneville on Aug. 20, 1965, by part-time deputy sheriff Tom Coleman. Coleman had aimed his weapon at 17-year-old Ruby Sales, a black civil rights activist and…

The Tax Foundation, a non-partisan research organization, recently unveiled a study indicating the value of $100 in all 50 states. The value of $100 is worth the most in Mississippi ($115.21), Arkansas ($114.29), South Dakota ($114.16), Alabama ($114.03) and West Virginia ($113.12). Areas including the District of Columbia ($84.96), Hawaii ($86.06), New York ($86.73), New…

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Taxpayers won a key battle with government workers unions this summer when one of Rhode Island’s top politicians withdrew two measures that would have financially rewarded career firefighters, reformers say. The union representing some of those firefighters pays him rent, they note. Leaders of firefighters unions had sought to bring out a big gun…