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3 Extreme Biden Policies That Will Be Going Away in 2025
As the Biden administration winds to a close, the time has come to examine President Joe Biden’s record. Certain policy decisions stand out as colossal mistakes, while others are noteworthy for their extremism. The following…
Trump Needs Legislation to Help Root Out the Deep State
The administrative state will not take President-elect Donald Trump’s reforms lying down, and although his actions as president can severely hamper the deep state, he will need legislative help to fully address the…
Trump Faces Unions in Government Efficiency Battle
THE CENTER SQUARE—President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C., that may throw a wrench in his plans: federal…
The National Nightmare Is Ending
Après Biden, “L’audace, l’audace, encore l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: After Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and still more daring, and always more…
33 Books You Should Read In 2025
As you set your 2025 goals and New Year’s resolutions, The Daily Signal encourages you to make reading books a priority (or listening to them, if that’s your preference). We asked our own staff, plus others from The Heritage…
Biden Opts for Opaqueness, not Transparency, on Federal Unions
THE CENTER SQUARE—President Joe Biden has nixed a federal union accountability website despite his administration’s promises that it would be back. Biden administration officials had previously said the site was simply being…
Democrats Label Jimmy Carter’s Election Reforms Jim Crow 2.0
History remembers Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency more kindly than his presidency for a host of reasons. One could certainly be that as president, Carter didn’t champion election integrity laws–but reforms such as voter ID…
Trump Is Right About Control of the Panama Canal
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours.” That was Ronald Reagan’s take on how we should think about the Panama Canal when Americans were debating giving it to the Panamanian government in the 1970s. “We cannot abdicate our…
Will Speaker Mike Johnson Get the Boot Like Kevin McCarthy?
The 118th Congress is all but over. For the House, it ended in much the same way it began: With various factions within the Republican Party jostling for their priorities and for power. Is the 119th Congress in for a repeat…
Suicides Among Enlisted Military Members Are Rising
According to the Department of Defense’s Annual Report on Suicide in the military, which outlines suicide trends among service members and their families, 523 service members died by suicide in 2023. This harrowing statistic…