Author: Sydney Robinson

How do you know that the healthcare plan being hurriedly assembled and voted on without knowing the full story is really, really good? When Republicans make protections within the bill itself exempting themselves from it entirely, allowing them to continue receiving adequate healthcare à la Obamacare. Yes, the corrupt, devastating Obamacare replacement that will be voted on today in the House despite having no CBO score provides a convenient exemption for members of Congress and their aides. As it turns out, it’s much easier to sell a rotten deal to the American public, effectively signing the death certificate of...

Amid wide speculation and criticism over former President Obama’s plan to give paid speeches to big banks and corporations, the Obama family has announced plans to donate a large sum of money, personally, towards Chicago jobs programs. Considering Obama chose Chicago as the site of his official return to the public eye last month, as well as it being the chosen site of the planned Obama Presidential Center, it is fitting that the Obamas’ contribution should go to the city that made Obama who he is. Both Barack and Michelle plan to together give $2 million to Chicago summer jobs...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are attempting to learn from recent mistakes made by the DNC by investing heavily in an insurgent Democratic candidate in conservative Montana. The candidate is a curious one – renowned folk singer Rob Quist is running against tech millionaire Greg Gianforte in a special congressional election in Montana. Decked out in a cowboy hat while standing next to a pickup truck and loading his family’s generations-old rifle, Quist fits the bill. Somehow, the Democrat has poised himself as the good old boy protecting American values against a “millionaire from New Jersey,” an effective switching...