Abbott’s Voucher Push: A Political Waterloo In The Making?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s single-minded pursuit of school vouchers is drawing comparisons to Napoleon’s ill-fated Waterloo campaign. Long regarded as a military genius, Napoleon had...
Texas Republicans Assault On Personal Liberty Puts State In National Spotlight
In 2011, a Houston filmmaker and photographer named Gary Watson released a six-issue comic called After Twilight that portrayed Texas as a theocratic secessionist...
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Trustee Scott Henry Under Fire
As voters become more polarized in certain parts of the country and elect candidates that express strong sentiments about cultural wedge issues, one question...
Analysis: What Unites All The Dallas People Arrested for Jan. 6
Kevin Krause at The Dallas Morning News published an exhaustive list of the 35 North Texans who have been arrested, tried, and/or convicted for...
Republicans Turning Their Backs on Business in Favor of Culture Wars
In the grand kickball game of American two-party politics, it’s widely understood that Republicans picked big business as part of their team. However, the...
Milton is the Climate Change Bill Coming Due
As Hurricane Milton buries the needle on our current hurricane severity scale, no exchange on the internet better sums up the way we got...
America — Home to the Most Robust Democracy, or Simply the Most All-Consuming One?
This election season, millions of bleary-eyed voters, motivated by various combinations of hope, fear, and outrage, stood in voting lines after being bombarded by...
Hatred, Violence, and Fear — A Short History of Anti-Minority Activity in Texas
As Jewish Texans see surges in antisemitic-fueled crimes, other minority groups have also experienced recent retribution for being different from those who are not...
Lone Star Blues
In this week’s episode of Showtime’s “The Circus” entitled “Lone Star Blues,” Joe Straus, former speaker of the Texas House, placed most of the...
The Hinojosa Era: A Decade Of Democratic Disappointment In Texas
It has been 30 years since a Democrat was last elected to a statewide office in Texas, and Republicans have held a majority in...
