Sam Ennis is a former Communications Intern at the Texas Public Policy Foundation for the 2022 Summer semester. Sam is a rising sophomore at the University of Missouri majoring in Strategic Communication. At school, he serves as the Treasurer and Chaplin of his fraternity Alpha Gamma Sigma as well as a writer for the Honors College’s communications team.
Leslie Winters remembers the economic downturn of the 1980s. She remembers standing in long lines with her grandmother to receive welfare benefits like “government cheese” and “government butter.” For a long time, it was just that, a memory. Now, she fears she may have to do the same with her three children. But Leslie isn’t...
After Texas state Rep. Jared Patterson announced his support for banning minor’s use of social media, the partisan media was quick to denounce his efforts and, in the case of the Dallas Observer, declare that Texas lawmakers will have to pry social media out of children’s “cold, dead hands.” Well Dallas Observer, that’s exactly what...
Partisans across the nation denounced Republicans during the 2021 debate over election integrity measures for “waging a nationwide assault on voting rights,” and dreaming up policies that were “Jim Crow in a tuxedo.” Unfortunately for the left’s narrative, if there was a vast rightwing conspiracy to suppress votes, then it’s doing a pretty awful job...