Author: Sydney Robinson

While the rest of the world concerned itself with important issues like global warming, the erosion of the Constitution, psychopath President Donald Trump, and the rising inequality gap between the rich and the poor, a motivated group of pro-confederate activists gathered to protest the removal of confederate monuments from Charlottesville, Virginia. The demonstration occurred on Saturday night and was in response to the planned removal of a confederate monument in the city. The city plans to remove a state of Robert E. Lee, the continuation of a growing trend in many Southern cities. Led by white nationalist and self-proclaimed “alt-right” leader...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made good on his anti-drug witchhunt beliefs by rolling back established regulations put into place by former Attorney General Eric Holder. With the new guidelines, federal prosecutors are now required to seek the most severe charges carrying the most severe punishment possible, a stark difference from the more cautious, forgiving guidelines previously in place. In 2013, Holder issued a memo instructing prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with certain mandatory minimum sentences in relation to low-level drug offenders. The memo was an attempt at mercy in order to lessen the long-term consequences for non-violent, low-level...

In a slew of tweets issued early Friday morning, President Trump threatened to end the longstanding tradition of daily press briefings between the White House Press Secretary and members of the White House press. To explain his hopes to blur the lines of transparency even further, President Trump blamed the dishonest press for being too hard on his press secretary and deputy press secretary after the Deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly botched the handling of Comey-related questions. In his tweet, Trump argued that releasing official statements rather than holding the daily briefings would be more accurate. As a very active...