Nation's priorities.
What issues are on top of Americans’ minds as President Biden gives his State of the Union speech this evening?
The latest IBD/TIPP Poll of over 1,358 Americans, completed on Friday last week, answers the question. The poll asked Americans, "What are the top-3 issues facing the country today?"
The economy emerged as the #1 issue. Gun violence/control and Immigration are the other top issues.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate | May 13, 2026
Central banks’ purchases and repatriation of gold are on the rise, and both should be viewed as a symptom of deglobalization. They signal the advent of a more geopolitically fragmented world in which cross-border transactions of all kinds are poised to become more difficult and costly.
By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal | May 11, 2026 Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’m speaking on the 71st day of the Iran war, but of course, it hasn’t been 71 days. The last real date of bombing, intense bombing—not a
By John W. And Nisha Whitehead via Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | May 12, 2026 Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight.
“Every American has the right to publicly criticize the government—that’s what makes the First Amendment guarantee of free speech so special and the envy of the world,” ADF legal counsel Mercer Martin said in a statement.
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | May 12, 2026 Despite being newly empowered by the Callais v. Louisiana Supreme Court ruling, South Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate rejected moving ahead with a redistricting plan that would have likely unseated the state’s sole Democrat in Congress, Rep. Jim Clyburn. On Tuesday,
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By Pedro Rodriguez, The Daily Signal | May 12, 2026 Legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign‑origin pharmaceutical drugs and the employment of illegal alien workers has stalled, even as scrutiny intensifies over Mochi Health and its previous distribution of potentially dangerous weight‑loss drugs tied to China. State records
