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
Military Service Ends, but Purpose Does Not: Why Patriot Pipeline Matters
For most Americans, changing jobs means updating a resume and learning a new office culture. For a veteran, leaving the military often means leaving behind a mission, a community, and an identity that shaped every aspect of daily life. The challenge of transition is often less about finding a paycheck than it is about finding… -
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China Is Stealing Our Secrets Today to Crack Them Tomorrow. Trump Just Started Fighting Back.
On June 22, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders that, taken together, amount to one of the most consequential technology-security decisions of the decade, and almost no one outside the cybersecurity profession noticed. Executive Order 14409, “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks,” and Executive Order 14411, “Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum… -
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The ‘Great American Outdoors Act 250’ Is a Conservative Win for Conservation
“As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.” So said Meriwether Lewis as he and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery through territory obtained from the Louisiana Purchase all the way to the Pacific. As they journeyed, the Corps of Discovery crossed vast prairies, followed the… -
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Alaska’s Senate Wants to Raise Your Cost of Energy—Again
The Iran war has taught us that America needs even more oil and natural gas production to protect consumers from events overseas, but Alaska’s Senate seems intent on reducing production. Lawmakers took a tax reform bill and turned it into a tax hike that risks wrecking investment in the oil and gas industry and ultimately… -
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No, JAMA Didn’t Just Prove That Pro-Life Laws Lead to Worse Miscarriage Care
The Journal of the American Medical Association is at it again, with yet another downright deceptive pro-choice study, this time alleging that state pro-life laws lead to worse care for pregnant women who suffer miscarriages. Planned Parenthood announced: “JAMA’s study finds that patients in states where abortion is banned at or before six weeks of… -
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Education Department Announces New Measure to Encourage Student Loan Repayment
America doesn’t just have a student debt problem—it has an accountability problem. If policymakers want an affordable higher education system, they must stop cycles of debt accumulation and forgiveness and require students to pay back the money they borrowed. Last week, the Department of Education announced a temporary 1% student loan interest rate reduction for… -
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Supreme Court Rules CBP Does Not Need Clear and Convincing Evidence to Find Alien Inadmissible
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Blanche v. Lau that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can decline to admit a lawful permanent resident (LPR) into the U.S. based on an ongoing criminal proceeding; a CBP agent is not required to have clear and convincing evidence that the alien committed the crime. When Muk… -
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SCOTUS: Prison Officials Who Violated Prisoner’s Free Exercise Rights Not Liable for Money Damages
Few Americans would read the facts in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety without being disturbed. According to Damon Landor and the state of Louisiana, prison officials shaved his dreadlocks against his will and in violation of his religious beliefs as a devout Rastafarian. Even more appalling is the fact that Landor… -
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A Christian Response to Pride Month
Pride Month is difficult to avoid. Whether you are logging onto your Hulu account, listening to the radio, or shopping online, it seems that many organizations support June’s dedication to same-sex marriage and transgenderism. Navigating the cultural support of this issue as a Christian can be complex and practically challenging. It is important to understand… -
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Newsom’s 911 Debacle
While some problems caused by California’s one-party government get significant press, there’s one major issue that’s virtually ignored: The state’s 911 system is dangerously outdated, and the attempt to update it has already cost taxpayers $502 million with little to show for it. California has an analog emergency warning system from the 1970s. There is… -
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JD Vance’s Chicken Coop Is About More Than Just Chickens
After hearing that Vice President JD Vance had installed a chicken coop at the Naval Observatory, some people treated it as a political statement, but I suspect it is something much simpler. Recent estimates suggest roughly 11 million American households keep backyard chickens. That means the chicken coop behind the vice president’s residence is not… -
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The American Opportunity Agenda Is Key to Advancing America’s Economic Freedom
When economic freedom advances, prosperity follows. That critical relationship is the underlying finding of The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual benchmark study that assesses and compares economic policy environments of countries around the world. The latest edition of the Index points out, yet again, that what really matters is the direction… -
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June Isn’t Pride Month. It’s the Month Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ.
The heart has been called the seat of the soul. Across different languages and cultures, this organ is spoken of as the place where a person knows what is true beyond logic and reasoning. The heart is evoked when a husband and wife make their wedding vows. The heart is what jumps when a parent… -
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D-Day at 82: An American’s Experience at Normandy
This week, I had the honor of visiting Normandy, France, with Young America’s Foundation. Led by combat veteran Lt. Col. Allen West, our cadre of student leaders walked the five beaches of Normandy, which were hallowed 82 years ago by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s soldiers, sailors, and airmen. After commemorating the anniversary of the D-Day landings, and… -
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The Academic Achievement Gap Is a Knowledge Gap
Children of married parents with high education levels are more likely to be healthy and succeed in school and life than their peers. Children from these families are also more likely to live above the poverty line and benefit from extracurricular activities such as music lessons, sports, and summer camp. These activities offer students prized… -
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Giving Americans More Choices for Their Retirement Savings
For years, most Americans’ retirement savings plans have been locked out of certain investment choices, including some of the market’s best-performing assets. That makes it harder to save for retirement. Fortunately, though, this is about to change, giving savers new—and better—options for their investments. At issue are not only the many rules and regulations surrounding… -
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Conservation Was Always a Conservative Value
For many years, I was a progressive-leaning vegan chef in Los Angeles. I cared deeply about the environment and believed politics and regulation were the best tools for protecting it. Then I became a farmer. And a conservative. I did not become conservative because I stopped caring about the environment. My commitment to the environment… -
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RIP Feminism: Reflections From TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Conference
I spent the past weekend in San Antonio at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Conference. While I was on the older end of the bell curve, I was encouraged by what I heard and saw from a largely Gen Z and millennial crowd. A host of speakers discussed a variety of topics appealing to… -
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America, the Hedge Fund
From its beginnings, America has thrived on a tradition of separation between government and private industry. But having just emerged from the Biden era, with its heavy-handed regulation of energy, automotives, and appliances, the U.S. is now entering a new period in which the government is becoming a strategic shareholder. The idea, ostensibly, is to… -
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Fairfax Schools’ Pricey Legal Advice Disguised as ‘Independent Investigation’
Earlier this year, 13 girls attending Fairfax High School told school administrators that Israel Flores Ortiz, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador attending the school as a junior, groped their genitals in the hallway as they were transitioning between classes. In April, Ortiz was sentenced to 360 days in jail for multiple counts of…