The Facts About Gun Control and Homicide Rates

Are there really fewer homicides in countries with gun control? Are other countries besides the United States dealing with mass shooting? John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center joined The Daily Signal at the Conservative Political Action Conference to share the data about gun use the mainstream media isn’t highlighting. Read the transcript posted […]

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Want to Live a Better Life? You Can Start by Loving Your Enemies, Says Arthur Brooks

Arthur Brooks published his newest book, “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt,” last week and visited The Daily Signal to share some real-life solutions to the practical problems facing America. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and host of “The Arthur Brooks Show.” You can listen to the interview on our podcast or read a lightly edited transcript below. Rob Bluey: Tell us what you […]

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Why Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Would Be Bad for America

Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a new plan to break up Big Tech companies. The proposal entails appointing a bunch of regulators to undo mergers that her administration would deem anti-competitive. Warren’s plan would classify any company that runs a marketplace and makes more than $25 billion a year as a “platform utility” […]

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College Admissions Bribery Scandal Shows How Higher Ed Culture Has Descended Into Signaling

How much is an elite education worth to you? How about $500,000—and a jail sentence? That’s how much wealthy actresses, business leaders, and financiers have pawned off to bribe their children off to colleges like Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California.  According to The New York Times, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion […]

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College Admissions Bribery Scandal Shows How Higher Ed Culture Has Descended Into Signaling

How much is an elite education worth to you? How about $500,000—and a jail sentence? That’s how much wealthy actresses, business leaders, and financiers have pawned off to bribe their children off to colleges like Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California.  According to The New York Times, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion […]

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How To Win On Immigration: Italy’s Salvini Shows The Way

Authored by Guillaume Durocher via The Unz Review, Really and truly, I did not expect the most promising developments in West-European politics to come from Italy. Who could predict that the strange government appointed in June 2018 – an uneasy alliance of nationalists under Matteo Salvini’s Lega and the populist-but-vague Five-Star Movement – would last as […]

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Southern Poverty Law Center Bias Exposed

The co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a deep-pocketed, left-wing civil rights organization, was fired on Wednesday. Morris Dees, a prominent lawyer who founded SPLC in 1971, was reportedly forced out due to workplace misconduct, though the organization didn’t specify what that misconduct was. The Los Angeles Times reported: “A letter signed by about […]

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