Government Employee Who Beat Unions at Supreme Court Sees End to Their ‘Free Ride’

Labor unions no longer get a free ride on the backs of government employees who are forced to pay for political activism they disagree with, the man who successfully challenged the practice at the Supreme Court told The Daily Signal in an interview. For decades, Illinois state government worker Mark Janus said, union leaders had […]

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Union Fees for Government Employees

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that nonunion government workers can’t be forced to pay dues or other fees to support a union, further diminishing the power of organized labor and setting up what right-to-work proponents called the “hard work” of protecting free speech rights for the nation’s government employees. Right-to-work advocates also expressed concern […]

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The Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent

My column a fortnight ago, titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex. Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote about this in her article titled “How Identity […]

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Corporate America’s Perilous Partnership With a Far-Left Propagandist

Corporate America, take note: Relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate” and “extremist” labels could make a liar out of you—and cost you millions of dollars. It wasn’t always like this. Decades ago, SPLC built its reputation as a trusted civil rights watchdog by valiantly fighting the Ku Klux Klan. But it has wandered […]

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The Flawed Red Hen Analogy Shows Liberals Still Don’t Understand Christian Baker Case

After a Lexington, Virginia, restaurant, the Red Hen, refused service to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday, commentators on the left immediately seized upon a false analogy. They likened that incident to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the case of the Christian baker in Colorado who refused to craft a custom cake for […]

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We Hear You: LGBT ‘Pride,’ the FBI’s Clinton Probe, the Singapore Summit, and Tucker on Trump

Editor’s note: Our audience had some things to say about Rachel del Guidice’s account of what she saw at the recent LGBT pride parade in Washington, D.C. , and on Fred Lucas’s reporting on the official review of the FBI’s treatment of Hillary Clinton.  Those responses dominate this week’s collection of views. Be sure to […]

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Must-See Moments: Media’s Immigration Meltdown

The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week. This week, we discuss all things immigration, as the contentious policy debate rages on. First lady Melania Trump caused a stir with a controversial jacket (“I Don’t Care, Do U?”), President Donald Trump signed an executive order, and Homeland […]

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I’m Sitting Through One of the UN’s Most Useless Conferences. Here’s What‘s Happening.

For this week and the next, the United Nations is hosting a conference of its Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects—fortunately abbreviated as the PoA. Like the U.N. Human Rights Council, the PoA is a classic U.N. institution: It’s a […]

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