U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, has embraced anti-transgender messaging as she seeks a full six-year term after being appointed to her brother's seat at President Trump's urging.
Graham, who faces nine challengers, including U.S. Reps. Ralph Norman and Russell Fry and former U.S. Rep. and Gov. Mark Sanford, recently released a 30-second ad introducing herself to voters and highlighting several issues popular with Trump and the Republican base, including abortion and opposition to transgender athletes.
If you've known a true sociopath, it's likely you'll recognize the type among the three hyper-ambitious grad students in Aurin Squire's wicked new comedy My Favorite Sociopath.
Making its world premiere at the venerable Contemporary American Theater Festival, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia -- in a solid production directed by Céline Rosenthal -- the play pits the three aspiring journalists against each other for a plum job at a newspaper. And the competition gets dirty.
The tactics used by one or more of them to steal an advantage might be described as amoral. Their behavior could certainly be seen as sociopathic.
"Our role as journalists is to help communicate stories and be voices for people," says Vaughn Hillyard, a former campaign reporter who is now senior White House correspondent for the cable news network MS NOW. "In journalism, we are part of ever-evolving stories and dialogues."
For Hillyard, the desire to tell important stories and hold people in power to account dates back to his high school days in Phoenix, Arizona. He worked for the student newspaper, which won a First Amendment Press Freedom Award after its reporting on a standardized testing system being used by the Glendale Union High School District was censored and stalled for a year before being published -- well after he had graduated and entered college.
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