Author: Sydney Robinson

There is often discussion about America’s lukewarm relationship to the vote, but residents in a small town in Iowa took that discussion to a new extreme when not a single resident showed up to vote in a local special election on Tuesday. Residents in McIntire, Iowa were given a special election in order to determine whether the terms of local elected officials might be extended. On the ballot was two questions: should the mayor’s term be extended from two years to four, and should the terms of council members see the same? Apparently the town’s 70 registered voters couldn’t...

Until now, the American taxpayer has been footing the bill for Secret Service to maintain an office in the New York City Trump Tower, a fee paid to the Trump family each month. Considered a necessity when Trump and the First Lady spent a large amount of their time there, it only made sense for the protective service to maintain space in the President’s golden hotel. Now, though, it appears that a dispute over the lease is causing the Trump business to give the government organization the boot. According to the Washington Post, sources close to the conflict say that...

Though American Muslims are subject to intense scrutiny, surveillance, and discrimination, a recent Pew survey revealed that the religious group is far more tolerant than white evangelicals. The Pew poll found that since 2007, American Muslims’ acceptance of homosexuality has grown from 27 percent to 52 percent – an increase of 25 percent. Meanwhile, Evangelical Christians largely maintained their disapproval of the minority group, with just 34 percent saying that homosexuality should be accepted by society. Those of us who know Evangelicals and Muslims would not be surprised by the statistic, but it flies in the face of a...