Author: Sydney Robinson

This week, producers at various media outlets are finding themselves in a unique position: they are unable to find any Republican officials or spokespeople to appear on their network to defend the decisions of the president. As each tragic piece of the Trump puzzle falls into place, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get any Republican to speak on the record about the day’s events, or to get their personal opinion on the president’s conduct. Even Fox News was forced to reveal on Tuesday evening that despite reaching out to dozens of lawmakers, not a single one was willing to appear...

A Republican lawmaker is seeking to eliminate a food stamps expansion established in 2010 in the interest of “fairness.” Republican State Senator Ralph Hise seems to have fallen victim to the same sort of extreme, far-right politics in the state that led to the bathroom bill and severely limited the powers of the Democratic governor, but now the elected official has turned his sights to another marginalized group: the poor. Hise argues that an expansion in the state’s food stamp program established in 2010 gives an unfair advantage to some while sometimes excluding others through technicalities. Rather than seeking to...