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Segregation Is Back, and It’s Coming From the Left
Integration used to be a major goal of the civil rights movement. But today, in many places, resegregation is the growing trend—particularly on college campuses…. Read More
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‘Tolkien’ Paints Vivid Picture of Writer’s Life, but Ignores His Faith
The new movie depicting the life of writer, poet, and academic J.R.R. Tolkien is a refreshing display of the beauty of friendship and perseverance in… Read More
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The Similarities Between Declining Rome and the Modern US
Sometime around A.D. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, “The Satyricon,” about… Read More
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Massachusetts High Schoolers Give Freed Slave Her 175 Years Overdue Gravestone
Nearly 175 years after the death of freed slave Lucy Foster, a memorial service it’s thought she never got took place at a cemetery on… Read More
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Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, I Had a Friendship With Doris Day
It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” In a way it was a backhanded… Read More
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Anti-Semitism Must Be Defeated at Home and Abroad
Israel is under attack—both in its own homeland and in ours. One week, The New York Times runs an anti-Semitic cartoon. The next week, Hamas launches… Read More
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Slain Cop’s Family Lauds Trump as President Demands Better Border Security
The day after Christmas, police Cpl. Ronil Singh was fatally shot, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, during a routine traffic stop in Newman, California. President… Read More
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The Media Won’t Say It, but Christians Are the No. 1 Persecuted Group Worldwide
Sri Lanka. April 21. Five hundred wounded, over 300 dead in terrorist attacks. According to mainstream media and many in the international community, these attacks… Read More
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The Internet Mob’s Unjust Smearing of Commuter as Racist Hurts Race Relations
Not all bad behavior, even when directed at a member of a minority group, is racist. But that seems to be a reality that eludes… Read More
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White House Criticizes Equality Act, but Stops Short of Veto Threat
A Trump administration official criticized legislation supported by House Democrats that would gut a landmark 1993 religious freedom law while adding sexual orientation and gender… Read More
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How the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Are Driving Society’s Civic Decline
New polling in the U.S. reveals an all-time high of those who identify as religious “nones,” individuals who claim no allegiance to any faith. Many… Read More
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Political Correctness Is Destroying Philadelphia
When most Americans think of Philadelphia—although probably fewer today than ever before, given the low level of history education in American schools—they probably think of… Read More
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A Sign of Hope From Hollywood
This article contains spoilers for “Long Shot.” For most of its two hours, “Long Shot” follows the usual tropes for a movie centered on a… Read More
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Why the Left Mocks the Bible
At PragerU, we have released about 400 videos on virtually every subject outside of the natural sciences and math. Along with 2 billion views, the… Read More
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Once Again, Coastal Elites Undermine Our Values
This week, the Met Gala took place in New York City. The event has always been a showpiece for celebrities seeking to make a splash,… Read More
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Trump Announces New Protections for Religious Liberty, Conscience on National Day of Prayer
President Donald Trump spoke out on religious freedom Thursday, as he vowed to protect conscience rights and to combat anti-Semitism. “Just today, we finalized new… Read More
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Lies Are Fueling the Rise of Anti-Semitism
A 19-year-old man on Saturday opened fire in a synagogue filled with hundreds of Jews celebrating the final hours of Passover. His hate-fueled act ended… Read More
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Where Race Relations Stand in 2019
Race relations aren’t doing so well in 2019. A recent Pew Research Center survey tackled a number of issues relating to race, and the outlook… Read More
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What the Left Gets Wrong About Racial Disparities
My longtime friend and colleague Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of “Discrimination and Disparities.” It lays waste to myth after… Read More
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In Defense of Kate Smith
The long arm of the PC police has reached back to the ’30s and arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who… Read More
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America Is Still Highly Religious. So Why Do We Keep Liberalizing?
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once declared that “God is dead … and we have killed him.” That famous statement rocked Europe nearly 150 years ago…. Read More
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Out of the Ashes, a Beautiful Hope
Last week, the world mourned the blazing destruction of the opulent Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. But that wasn’t the only devastating church fire in… Read More
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Why Obama and Clinton Tweeted About ‘Easter Worshippers,’ Not Christians
Sometimes, a few sentences tell you more about a person—and, more importantly, an ideology—than a learned thesis. That is the case with tweets from Hillary… Read More
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Despite Differences, Civil Discourse Is Still Possible
America is divided. Nobody is listening to anyone else. All we want to do is have our own cognitive biases confirmed. America is doomed to… Read More
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Problematic Women: What Bre Payton’s Mom and Friends Want You to Know About Grief
The Daily Signal’s weekly podcast, “Problematic Women,” went on a three-month hiatus after losing our podcast co-host, Bre Payton, on Dec. 28 of last year…. Read More
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Are Chase Bank’s Account Decisions Motivated by Politics?
I have been a Chase Bank customer for years. Who knows how much longer it’ll be? Will the company’s thought police come for me next?… Read More
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Podcast: The Burning of Notre Dame
The fire at Notre Dame has been put out. The damage is extensive, but there are glimmers of hope even amid the destruction. Today, Monica… Read More
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Criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar Isn’t Incitement
A couple of years ago, I spoke at the University of California, Berkeley. My presence was apparently so offensive to a particular group of people… Read More
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What Notre Dame Means to Me, a Lifelong Catholic
I almost didn’t go to Paris. We were only a few weeks into our semester abroad in Italy, and I was still struggling with culture… Read More
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Podcast: Recovering the Lost Art of Civility
With 2020 campaigns already ramping up, it looks like partisanship could be the norm for the foreseeable future. But it doesn’t have to be that… Read More
