EconomyCommentary
Intel Deal: Trump’s Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism
Is it Comrade President now? Some conservatives are up in arms about President Donald Trump’s decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel…. Read More
PoliticsNews
Heritage Chief Recommends Presidential Medals of Freedom for Feulner, Buchanan
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and members of Congress are calling on President Donald Trump to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Heritage’s late… Read More
PoliticsNews
Nixon Foundation Honors Arkansas’ Sanders
The leadership of the state of Arkansas is a model for the rest of the country. That’s what the Richard Nixon Foundation concluded this year… 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
PoliticsCommentary
Alcatraz: Should Congress Turn Part of a National Park Back Into a Prison?
President Richard Nixon, a native Californian, promoted an idea in 1972 to turn an iconic stretch of California’s coastline into a national park. It would… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
One Big Thing Biden Will Leave Behind
The 1972 presidential election—which pitted incumbent President Richard Nixon against Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota—was an absolute wipeout. Nixon won 49 of the 50… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The New Kennedy-Nixon Moment: Why Politicians Must Master Podcasts to Win
Jeff Bezos is right. Americans do not trust the news media, but he misunderstands why. Americans are tired of talking heads and the opinions of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Are Those Darn Baby Boomers So Rich?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Or, more precisely, why are subsequent generations so… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Legacy of Richard Mellon Scaife, Champion of Independent Journalism, Lives on at The Daily Signal
PITTSBURGH—Just over 50 years ago, Richard Mellon Scaife did something both his friends and critics thought was just a vanity project to promote his conservative… Read More
International Commentary
Reconsidering a Giant of American Foreign Policy
“I think of myself as a historian more than as a statesman,” Henry Kissinger once reflected. Kissinger, who died Nov. 29 at the age of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A Rumsfeld Acolyte Remembers Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger died Wednesday at the age of 100. While there will be many assessments of the nature of Kissinger’s foreign policy legacy, there… Read More
President Obama Shakes Hands with Cuban Dictator
Earlier today at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, President Obama shook hands with Cuba’s dictator, Raul Castro. This exchange marks the third time in history that… Read More
Idaho Businessman Sounded Alarm on IRS Hit List Last Year
Last year Frank VanderSloot made a sizable donation to a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney. He signed up as a national co-chairman on Romney’s finance… Read More
Standing Filibuster Would Cause More Senate Delays
In an interview on January 11, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) told a Nevada television station that the Senate would likely not take the… Read More
Select Committee on Benghazi: Precedent Exists
In the aftermath of the September 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, the Obama Administration announced efforts to investigate the facts behind… Read More
President Obama’s Enemies List
In 1971, America was introduced to President Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List.” The President had instructed staff to keep a list of political opponents, and as… Read More
How Higher Energy Prices Threaten U.S. Jobs
America’s trucking industry is on pace to pay a whopping $138.7 billion for fuel in 2011 — an increase of $37.2 billion over last year… Read More
Heritage Mourns Loss of William Safire
The Washington political scene has lost one of its best minds with the death of William Safire. I first met Bill almost 40 years ago,… Read More
Big Government Here
Under the header Big Government Ahead, David Brooks identifies four sources of massive new spending soon to be coming out of Washington and warns: “What… Read More
Nobody Buying Latest Liberal Line On Energy
Liberals in Congress continue to blame anybody but themselves for the high price of energy today. Commenting on the passage of s bill directing the… Read More
