Virginia Allen, Senior News Producer and Host of the Daily Signal Podcast and Problematic Women, discusses what lies ahead for America’s schools, commentary from Former HUD Secretary and renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and what we should expect from the 118th Congress.

Sally Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how America’s healthcare system has never been better at keeping patients alive and living longer, types of governmental activities and proposals that disrupt America’s cycle of innovation, and the real drivers of high drug costs in America.

William J. Conti, an Attorney from Washington, DC, discusses the winners and losers following President Trump’s address to Congress, the enhanced transparency of the Trump administration, and why the first six weeks of President Trump’s second term look so different from those of his first term.

Bryan Bashur, Federal Affairs Manager of the Americans for Tax Reform, discusses the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, why lawmakers should reject any legislative or regulatory actions to increase or expand federal deposit insurance on a temporary or permanent basis, and why increasing or expanding deposit insurance would present a moral hazard, propagate a cycle of riskier behavior, and could force banks to be more reliant on the federal government.

Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses legal precedent surrounding First Amendment protection for freedom of speech, association and petitioning the government, wrongful efforts in Congress to pursue anti-First Amendment legislation regarding mandatory "donor disclosure" laws, and the U.S. Supreme Court's grant of review in two First Amendment donor privacy cases out of California.

Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses politics as a career and what the polls say on the issue, how the ability to stay honest in politics plays out in the polls, and what the polls tell us about the policy impacts of the president election.

David Rivkin, Jr., a Partner at Baker & Hostelter, discusses the recent resolution passed by the House of Representatives purporting to restrict the president's power to wage war, how the power to declare war is different from the power to make war and what history teaches us.