LawNews
4 Things to Know About the Prosecutor Who’s Probing ‘Obamagate’
A federal prosecutor in Texas is drawing a new kind of attention by digging into the “unmasking” of Trump campaign associates that occurred in the… Read More
LawCommentary
Voter Fraud More Likely to Affect Election Than Foreign Meddling
Washington used to abide by the maxim: “Politics stops at the water’s edge.” Those days are gone. Consider the reaction to a recent unclassified overview of foreign threats… Read More
Law Analysis
What Happened in Chicago and What May Be Next, Explained
Hundreds of vandals looted Chicago businesses Sunday night and into Monday morning. The images of shattered storefronts in and around the city’s Loop look more… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Are Today’s Leftists Truly Marxists?
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx’s life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Troubling Ignorance of Our Lawmakers
The two biggest events of 2020 have exposed a frightening fact: A passing grade in civics class wasn’t a prerequisite for many of our political… Read More
LawNews
‘Philadelphia Statement’ Defends Free Speech From Cancel Culture
Asserting that cancel culture has put freedom of expression in crisis, a statement initially signed by 45 prominent individuals from universities, think tanks, and other… Read More
EducationCommentary
We’re a Doctor and a Nurse. Here Are 10 Things You Should Know About Sending Your Kids to School.
Some schools are reopening this fall. COVID-19 is still going around, so parents have a lot of questions about what this means for their kids, their… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why a Safe Harbor Is Needed to Protect Gig Workers’, Gig Users’ Safety
You know there’s something wrong if companies can’t do the right thing without potentially destroying their entire business model. In fact, many of the ways… Read More
LawCommentary
Until Cities End Riots, Federal Authorities Stand Ready
The first and most important duty of our government is to keep our country safe. No country should allow a militant attack on its courthouses… Read More
LawCommentary
2 Promising Developments Toward Improving the Immigration Courts
Two senators, Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are taking seriously the need to improve our broken immigration courts, and their attention to this… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
A Defense of Our Founding Ideas
It’s not just statues and American history that are under attack. The most essential ideas from America’s founding are under siege and on trial. Robert… Read More
LawCommentary
Trump Is Right About Mail-In Ballots
I begin with a personal story to make a greater point. Two weeks ago, I mailed an 8-by-10-inch envelope from a Miami post office to… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Do I Seem Rattled?’: Trump Calmly Describes Shooting Near White House
A few minutes into a press briefing Monday evening, President Donald Trump calmly walked away from the lectern after a Secret Service agent interrupted him… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Museum, or Another Monument to Identity Politics?
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved the creation of another Smithsonian institution, a National Latino Museum. It was one more sign that political leaders… Read More
SocietyCommentary
3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe
In our summer of discontent, of protests and then riots in what many view as a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd at… Read More
LawNews
Border Chief Rips Media, Oregon Politicians for Anti-Law Enforcement Rhetoric
A top homeland security official is calling out leaders in Portland, Oregon, as well as the mainstream media over criminal rioting and the smearing of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Defensive Uses of Guns in July Prove Importance of Removing Barriers to Ownership
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently blamed her city’s acute surge in gun violence on the lack of gun control laws in other states. As many… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Parents, Beware: The Global Assault on the Health and Innocence of Children
Parents in America and around the world are waking up to the disturbing reality that their children are being subjected to a new woke form… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Administration Ramps Up Use of Defense Production Act
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration was criticized for not using the Defense Production Act quickly enough or in sufficient… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Investigating the Prevalence of Left-Leaning ‘Fact-Checkers’
Editor’s note: We have added a response from NewsGuard to this article. A growing response to today’s chaotic information landscape sounds inviting and elegantly simple:… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Newest Demon in the Left’s Sights: Woke White Women
Torch-carrying neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, were the face of white supremacy in 2017. Today, it’s “Nice White Parents.” That’s the title of a new podcast distributed by… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Payroll Tax Suspension Executive Order Is Legally Dubious, Economically Unnecessary
President Donald Trump’s new executive order, which suspends the employee portion of Social Security payroll taxes for the rest of the year, is legally dubious… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Can Ecuador Continue to Gain Economic Freedom?
Ecuador dramatically rose in rank in the 2020 edition of The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. With an economic freedom score of 51.3… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Heritage Foundation Adds 2 Leading Academics as Visiting Fellows
The Heritage Foundation announced that two of the nation’s leading academics will join the think tank as visiting scholars in the Feulner Institute. Their work… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Explains Fight to Preserve America’s History
A battle is raging for the future of our nation as “extremists and criminals literally try to rip out [statues and other monuments] to destroy… Read More
EconomyNews
White House Weighs Bill in Response to Big Tech on Free Speech
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says the Trump administration is contemplating some type of regulation for social media companies as part of the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: A Vice President, a Constitution, and a Time for Adults
Editor’s note: We’re back with some of your letters to The Daily Signal. We didn’t mean for this column to be away for so long,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Our Annual August Debate Over the Bombs
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Barack Obama’s Filibuster Hypocrisy
In April of 2005, Sen. Barack Obama took to the floor of the United States Senate and passionately spoke out against Republican efforts to end… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Remembering Brent Scowcroft
Washington’s foreign policy community lost one of its most notable members this week. Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and… Read More
