Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Might Have Saved Gaza?
After October 7, 2023 Could the destruction of Gaza after October 7 have been avoided? The answer is yes—had Hamas so wished. First, if the Hamas leadership had simply complied with Israeli demands to (a) return the 251 hostages and (b) surrender the architects and perpetrators of the massacre of some 1,200 Israelis, the Israelis… -
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Fauci’s Bird Flu Dress Rehearsal for COVID-19
“As usual, I must publicly defend the President’s position, but I work behind the scenes.” That is what Anthony Fauci wrote in his private diary in July 2002. The president he was quietly working around was George W. Bush. Eighteen years later, America would watch Fauci stand at a podium beside President Donald Trump and… -
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How the Toxic Relationship Between Cartels and Chinese Money Launderers Costs American Investors
The king of cocaine wrote off an estimated $2.1 billion each year due to chunks of cash being eaten by rats (whether those “rats” were animals or people, the record is unclear). According to Pablo Escobar’s brother and accountant, Roberto, the cartel accumulated so much cash that it could hardly keep track of it. That… -
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Has Kristen Welker Ever Been Weaker?
Twenty years ago, Democrat politicians had a reason to be queasy over making an appearance on NBC‘s “Meet the Press.” Back then, host Tim Russert asked pointed questions, often relying on research to bring up potentially embarrassing statements and actions. Even Barack Obama knew he was going to get a serious probe of his past… -
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Rep. Clyde: America Needs a Citizen-Only Census
“We the People.” With those three words, our Founding Fathers forged our new nation into a constitutional republic. Through tremendous sacrifice and fierce debate, these wise men asserted that our government existed to serve, and ultimately acquired its legitimacy from, the people—from its citizens. With the Enumeration Clause, they established a census to count our… -
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Soft on Terrorism, Hard on Guns: Talarico’s Legislative Record Is Scarier Than Halloween
Now that U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico has returned to Texas’ campaign trail, he should explain his more troubling actions as a Lone Star State lawmaker. Talarico said nothing about anything when he vanished for 9 days, between virtual remarks to the U.S. Hispanic Business Council on Sept. 30 and an Oct. 9 stroll through… -
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How Head Start Can Serve More Children for Less
One might think that Head Start could either reduce costs or serve more children, but Alex Adams, assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families, is proving that to be a false dichotomy. For evidence, one need look no further than potential changes to the Head Start program. Head Start began as a… -
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Is the Trump Administration Dismantling Nation Building’s Last Stand?
Thanks to the Trump administration, for the first time in its 35-year history, the southeastern European country of Bosnia-Herzegovina had free and fair elections last week without aggressive interference from international bureaucrats. This puts a dagger into the global nation-building industry that sucked dry the country’s national sovereignty. Emerging from the violent breakup of communist… -
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The Masks Were Never About Science
On March 8, 2020, Anthony Fauci told “60 Minutes” that a healthy person had “no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Within a year, he was applauding the idea of wearing two. The official explanation is that the science changed—that we learned about presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread. Fauci’s own diary destroys that explanation… -
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Out for Delivery: The China Threat Comes to Your Door
Today’s digital marketplaces are omnipresent, promising competitive prices and fast delivery. More consumers have turned to these platforms in recent years, driving up online sales and helping e-commerce companies, particularly Chinese ones, rake in massive profits. China now captures a substantial share of global e-commerce. But its dominance of digital markets is not merely the… -
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Americans Shouldn’t Pay the Price for Crypto Billionaires’ Political Influence
Billions of dollars gone. That is the staggering scale of cryptocurrency-related losses reported by Americans. According to the FBI, cryptocurrency-related complaints accounted for more than $9 billion in reported losses in 2024 alone. And as ordinary American victims struggle to recover, some of the wealthiest players in crypto are pouring enormous resources into Washington politics… -
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Democrats Discover Biological Reality Just in Time for Midterms
A remarkable scientific breakthrough is sweeping the Democratic Party. With Election Day just weeks away, some of its candidates have suddenly discovered that boys and girls are in fact biologically different. The timing, of course, is hardly coincidental. For years, progressives dismissed objections to biological males competing in girls’ sports as bigotry. Now, with control… -
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Martin Luther King’s American Dream
Welcome to the tenth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence…. -
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Higher Education Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way Forward.
Higher education is broken. Most Americans would agree with this fact. The problem is not simply about grossly expensive tuition rates and professors who ascribe to moral relativism and defame religion. Higher education is crumbling because it does not understand what true education is. Christian Halls International was formed in response to this brokenness and… -
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Girls’ Sports Exist for a Reason
We separate boys and girls in sports for good reasons, and males don’t belong in women’s competition or in women’s locker rooms. An alleged occurrence last year makes this very clear. On Dec. 6, 2025, 15-year-old Kallie Keeler stepped onto a mat at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, Washington, for a girls’ wrestling match… -
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Hold the Line: Truth, the Media, and My Visit to Israel
I recently had the opportunity to represent the Heritage Foundation in Israel at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The event was held at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem and attended by many hundreds of people, including a delegation from the United States. Israel is a country I used to… -
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Novel ‘Exit Party’ Portrays a Fractured Nation
Sarajevo in 1984 was something of a backwater, a city behind the Iron Curtain in socialist Yugoslavia. However, it was enough of a First-World location that it hosted the Winter Olympics that year. Just a couple of Olympic cycles later, in 1996, the city was in ruins, destroyed by a four-year siege during the Bosnian… -
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Democrat Leaders vs. Biology
Does two plus two equal three? Or can a man be a woman? Democrat leaders in Washington, D.C., have embraced an ideology that denies the basic scientific truth that an individual’s sex is as unchangeable as the fact that two plus two equals four. An enduring example of this fact-denying ideology occurred when the Senate… -
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No, Justice Thomas Hasn’t Damaged the Reputation of the Supreme Court
Juan Williams calls Justice Clarence Thomas‘ place in history tragic. His argument rests on two sweeping claims: that Thomas is at the heart of a historic decline in public trust in the Supreme Court, and that he has damaged trust in black conservatives as a source of ideas about race. Those are serious accusations. They… -
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James Madison’s Warning for the Administrative State
James Madison never heard of the EPA, the SEC, or the FTC. But as one of the Founding Fathers, he understood the danger of allowing the same institution to make rules, enforce them, and then sit in judgment over the people accused of breaking them. In Federalist No. 47, Madison wrote that “the accumulation of…