SocietyCommentary
In a Flourishing Society, Should Safety Be a Means or an End?
COVID-19 has shown that many politicians and public figures believe in the ideology of safety over all else. They focus obsessively on keeping us safe,… Read More
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In Responding to Coronavirus, We Should Seek to Thrive, Not Just Survive
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a dramatic rise in mental health problems. My own experience attests to this, as the prolonged COVID-19 lockdown led me… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Heroes Died for What the Flag Represents. Here’s Why We Stand for It Today.
An American flag waves over the head of a black man. Surrounded by acts of injustice, rage, and violence, he wears a uniform tinged with… Read More
SocietyNews
Judge Blocks Idaho Law Preventing Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s Sports
U.S. District Judge David Nye of Idaho ordered a preliminary injunction on Monday temporarily halting a state law that prohibits transgender girls and women from… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How ‘Life Is Winning’ in 21st Century
How has the pro-life movement affected culture and politics? Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, examines that impact in her new book “Life… Read More
SocietyFeature
Fired for Accidentally Calling a Transgender Student ‘She,’ Teacher Takes Case to Court
Peter Vlaming has two great passions—teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
How the United Nations Promotes an Anti-Family Agenda
Kimberly Ells arrived at the United Nations excited to engage in work to strengthen families around the world. What she found was an agenda to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
George Soros: A Lifetime Fortune Spent on Liberal Influence
This week, billionaire financier George Soros celebrates his 90th birthday. That’s a big number, but it’s dwarfed by another Soros number: 708 million. That’s the… Read More
SocietyNews
As Iowans at Town Hall Worry About Police Protection, Pence Slams ‘Defund’ Movement
URBANDALE, Iowa—Bonnie Mattaliano, a retired health care worker, says she appreciates the Trump administration’s consistent backing of law enforcement. “We have a lot of friends… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Liberal and Conservative Agree: Fathers Matter, Case Closed
America has witnessed months of civil unrest in cities around America following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many of the protesters decry income… Read More
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Creator of New York Times’ 1619 Project Changes Tune to Insist It’s Not History
When The New York Times Magazine published the 1619 Project last year, supporters hailed this retelling of America’s founding as a “woke” counternarrative meant to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Racism of the ‘Anti-Racist’ Movement
Black Lives Matter protests led many people to want to do something useful to reduce racial injustice. Racial justice groups are being flooded with money…. 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
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
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
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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
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
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
SocietyNews
300 Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Barring of Transgender Biological Males From Women’s Sports
More than 300 female athletes are speaking out in support of Idaho’s decision to protect women’s sports from biological men. Female professional, Olympic, and National… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Collapse of the Traditional American Family
The Joint Economic Committee of Congress has just produced an important new study titled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home.” The report exhaustively presents… Read More
SocietyNews
Overwhelming Majority of Black Americans Support Current or Increased Police Presence, Survey Shows
Eighty-one percent of black Americans said they would prefer if police spend the same amount of time or more time in their neighborhoods, according to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Attacks on Faith, Family, and Conscience Threaten All Our Freedoms
During these tumultuous times, as practically every American institution comes under attack from the far left and its allies, two of our most essential values… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Problematic Women: Transgender Movement Threatens Future of Women’s Sports
In the 1960s, Sandra Bucha filed a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association, seeking to be allowed to compete on the boys swim team… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When the Counterculture Becomes the Culture
In November 2015, three years after taking the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl, quarterback Colin Kaepernick was benched in favor of Blaine Gabbert,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Leftist Effort to Revise American History
There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What Lincoln Would Tell Us About How to Preserve Our Republic
Many lament the decline in the teaching of civics and history that we are seeing in our schools. According to a recent survey of core… Read More
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Founders’ Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor Still Our Foundation
In recent weeks, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of America to declare that the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of the Founding… Read More
