SocietyCommentary
Why We Need Fathers to Make the Family Name Great Again
Conservatives in politics and culture are wise to make fatherlessness a focal point of their family policy priorities. Children who grow up with both parents… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Fatherhood Takes Precedence Over PGA Win for Golfer JJ Spaun
J.J. Spaun was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of San Dimas. He was the unlikely winner of the U.S. Open golf tournament… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Tribute to My Father—and Good Fathers Everywhere
I’m one of the lucky sons. One of the blessed sons. Because I not only had a father, but a good one. He provided for… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Father’s Day: Passing on the Mantle of Love
Father’s Day is celebrated a month after Mother’s Day. The formal establishment of a day to celebrate and honor our dads, however, lagged behind Mother’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Strong Fathers Build Civilizations—Weak Ones Lose Them
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Vexing Problem of Depopulation and Childlessness
Although pro-family academics and religious leaders have long expressed concern about widespread depopulation and childlessness within Western culture, this crisis is finally being noted by… Read More
LawCommentary
100 Years After Landmark Case, Federal Programs Continue to Violate Parents’ Constitutional Rights
June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark parental rights decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. That historic opinion recognized… Read More
PoliticsNews
California Records Show How Attorney General Skewed Transgender Ballot Measure
While gathering signatures for a proposed California ballot measure, Korey Wells found people who had opposed allowing boys to play girls scholastic sports, but nevertheless… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The West’s Assault on the African Family
In 1900, there were an estimated 9.6 million Christians in Africa. As of 2025, there are more than 754 million. That alone is a staggering figure. But… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Can Restore Fertility Without IVF. Here’s How.
Can America become a leader in helping infertile couples? More and more couples are struggling with infertility, unable to conceive. According to the World Health… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Celebrating This Mother’s Day the Irreplaceable Role of Mothers in America
If America wants to recover its former prosperity and strength, we should start by recovering our sense of what makes moms so important. Mother’s Day… Read More
PoliticsNews
At Tribute to Another First Lady, Melania Trump Calls Families ‘Foundation of a Healthy Society’
First lady Melania Trump elevated the important role that families and the home play within society at the unveiling of former first lady Barbara Bush’s… Read More
EducationCommentary
How Family Structure Leads to Academic Success
In 1965, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: “The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Idaho’s Pluckiest Christian Publisher Offers a Colorful Storybook Romp
Crispin wants to reclaim the legendary Lightning Blade. His sister Rose wants to host a nice picnic. Whose plan will win out? In the swashbuckling… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Fertility Rates Inch Up, but Marriage and Family Formation Trends Worry Experts
The U.S. birth rate has been on a downward slide since the Great Recession. In 2024, the total fertility rate went up slightly though, but… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Memories of an American Patriot: Don Hasselbeck
Don Hasselbeck passed away this week. The former NFL tight end was our neighbor growing up and for the longest time was the largest person… Read More
News
House Leadership, Luna End Deadlock Over Proxy Voting
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has reached a deal with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to allow new parents to take leave while… Read More
EducationNews
Cruz, Banks Seek to Give School Choice to Military Families in New Bill
WASHINGTON—Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Jim Banks, R-Ind., introduced the Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act on April 1, a bill aimed at giving… Read More
InternationalSocietyCommentary
Support for the Natural Family in Africa Is Rooted in ‘White Supremacy,’ SPLC Claims
It takes a special kind of insanity to find a Klan hood beneath an African movement to protect the natural family from abortion and LGBTQ+… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Keep the Trump Tax Cuts So American Families Can Thrive
Hide your wallets, taxes could be going up after Christmas! One of President Donald Trump’s greatest economic accomplishments of his first term, the Tax Cuts… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Hungary’s New Plan to Combat the Depopulation Disaster
Leftists look down on the supposedly unwashed masses and see climate Armageddon, but conservatives rightly fear that we’re not having enough babies to take care… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The War on Motherhood: Why the Left Wants to Erase Moms
Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t… Read More
SocietyNews
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Banks Introduces Bill to Give Parents Greater Freedom in Child Care Choices
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., introduced a bill to give parents more power over their child care decisions. The Respect Parents’ Childcare… Read More
SocietyCommentary
CULTURE SHOCK: Why Super Bowl LIX Was More Significant Than Met the Eye
In what turned out to be hardly a showdown at all between the triumphant Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl LIX still surprised… Read More
SocietyCommentary
America’s Families Need a Strong Federal Trade Commission Under Trump
The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and to protect that relationship from… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Making America Great Again Requires More Babies
There’s little need to become an interplanetary country if we can’t populate the country we already have. President Donald Trump’s inaugural address didn’t just include… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Protect Parental Rights
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sens. Tim Scott and James Lankford, along with Rep. Virginia Foxx, introduced legislation to uphold parental rights in education, childrearing, and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
One Reason Why Young People Are Delaying Marriage and What You Can Do About It
Why are so many Americans waiting so long to get married? One-third of young adults will likely never marry, according to recent research. Lyman Stone,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Jimmy Carter’s Little-Known Role in Political History: Giving Rise to Religious Right
President Jimmy Carter’s personal service to the poor after he left the White House in 1981 is remembered as Christian charity in action. What is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
NYC Subway Incident, Neely’s Death Didn’t Have to Happen. But Family, Laws Failed Him.
Jordan Neely could have been my brother. Both were diagnosed with severe schizophrenia, both with violent criminal histories, and both forcibly, temporarily hospitalized at Bellevue… Read More
