SocietyCommentary
Jussie Smollett and the Wages of Victimhood
What’s the moral of the Jussie Smollett case? Simply this: A culture that rewards victimhood status will produce an ever-growing number of victims. It’s basic… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: What Listening to Each Other Might Achieve
Editor’s note: Welcome to the 100th edition of “We Hear You,” where we publish your takes on the policy issues The Daily Signal covers. Thank… Read More
SocietyNews
Most Americans Can’t Pass a Basic Citizenship Test. Here’s Why We Should Be Worried.
Can a nation survive ignorant of its past? We are testing that very question right now. According to a recent survey by the Woodrow Wilson… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Right Side of History: How Abortion Became a ‘Positive Good’ to Proponents
“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Podcast: Social Justice Challenges America’s Founding Ideals
Social justice—you’ve probably heard the term. It’s a buzzword, but it’s also an ideology. When you peel back the layers, it becomes quite clear that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What We Can Learn From Ralph Northam’s Fall From Grace
For all of the light and hope America brings to the world, our experiment in democracy carries moments of darkness and shame. Often the light… Read More
SocietyNews
Virginia’s Attorney General Discloses That He Wore Blackface at College Party
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring shook his state’s already-reeling Democrat power structure Wednesday by disclosing that he wore blackface to a college party in 1980… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Stacey Abrams’ Full Embrace of Identity Politics Is a Recipe for Disaster
Following the 2016 elections, liberal intellectuals like Mark Lilla and Francis Fukuyama counseled Democrats to stop embracing identity politics and instead appeal to Americans as… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: Teaching Our Children, Taming Woke Moralism, Unpacking Green New Deal
Editor’s note: The left’s blind appeal for young Americans stirs concern among The Daily Signal’s audience. This week’s mailbag leads off with such comments. Please… Read More
SocietyNews
Trump Calls Democrats’ Religious Bigotry ‘Crisis for Our Country’
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that religious bigotry has become a crisis in the United States. “I think it’s a crisis for our country,” Trump… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In Rejecting the Pledge of Allegiance, the Left Is Rejecting Nationhood
Devotion to and love of flag and country is now considered hateful. At least that was the message given by Santa Barbara City College Board… Read More
SocietyNews
How States Look to Resist ‘Overreach’ by Federal Bureaucrats
Parents from Indiana to South Carolina who expect to have a voice in what their children are taught in public schools find that more difficult,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Covington Fiasco Is a Perfect Example of Why the Founders Distrusted Democracy
In the shallow world of modernity, we throw around a word like “democracy” as a stand-in for “things that I like.” Many in popular culture… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When Checks and Balances Fail
In February 2017, Dr. Christopher Duntsch became the first surgeon in American history known to be sentenced to prison for botching a patient surgery. A… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
No, the Electoral College Is Not a ‘Shadow of Slavery’s Power’
“There you go again,” Ronald Reagan famously joked in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter painted an inaccurate picture of one of his policies. Perhaps he’d… Read More
SocietyNews
‘I Cannot Comply’: A Second Amendment Advocate’s Fight Against the City of Boulder, Colorado
A Second Amendment advocate fighting against a constitutionally questionable gun ban and certification ordinance in the city of Boulder, Colorado, says he and his daughter… Read More
SocietyFeature
Re-Enactors Show How a Militia Ensured Washington’s Revolutionary Charge at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J.—Before Gen. George Washington entered the battlefield with reinforcements on the morning of Jan. 3, 1777, members of the Pennsylvania militia fired off two… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: Bringing Back Values That Made America Great
Editor’s note: We’re leading off this week’s mailbag with hopeful observations from Missouri resident Ben Wearp that suit the season. Be sure to write us… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Pulling Young Americans Back From the Brink
During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton often delivered the line: “America is great, because she is good.” It was a feel-good line, deployed then as… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Podcast: What Liberty Really Is
Have we forgotten what liberty really is? Os Guinness is author of the book “Last Call for Liberty,” in which he argues that America’s genius for… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: Conservatives and Liberals, Thoughts and Prayers, God and Guns
Editor’s note: Florida resident Andrea Falce’s email about the apparent prayer divide between conservatives and liberals stood out among recent missives. It leads this week’s… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today
Without a doubt, Bill Buckley would have happily joined the recent National Review Caribbean cruise, which sailed from Key West to the Dominican Republic to… Read More
SocietyNews
Ivy League Study Finds Liberals ‘Patronize’ Minorities, Conservatives Don’t
A study by Princeton and Yale researchers has found that white liberals act in “patronizing” ways toward blacks and other minorities, while white conservatives do… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Civility Can Pull Us Back From the Brink
Coming out of the bitterly-fought midterm elections, it’s easy to feel as though the United States has reached unprecedented levels of partisanship, but new research… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Right Side of History: Meet the Man Who Made the Supreme Court
“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: How to ‘Wield the Most Effective Weapon Against Tyranny’
Editor’s note: We begin selections from the mailbag this week with a letter from a reader in Georgia that gets at why The Daily Signal… Read More
SocietyNews
Half of Young Americans Say US Is ‘Racist’ and ‘Sexist,’ Survey Finds
A basic knowledge of civics and belief in American exceptionalism are in startling decline among younger Americans, a new report suggests. About half of those… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: Coming to America, Birthright Citizenship, and Climate Alarmism
Editor’s note: The Daily’s Signal’s audience was touched by foreign correspondent Nolan Peterson’s account of his wife’s introduction to America. The issue of birthright citizenship… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Podcast: UPenn Law Professor Says Radical Feminism Has Made Women ‘Dumber’
Has “radical feminism” been bad for women? University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax argues a resounding yes. “Radical feminism has had a baleful… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Podcast: The History of Thanksgiving
What actually happened at the first Thanksgiving? And how did our memory of it, over the centuries of American history, get tinged with a bit… Read More
