Texas Governor Greg Abbott is often the tip of the spear for the great conservative project in America, which makes him a good bellwether for which parts of the American system the GOP will attack next. Abbott now has his sights set on public education. The Austin American-Statesman reports that …
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Texas‘ audit of the 2020 election results thus far hasn’t unveiled anything out of the ordinary, despite former President Donald Trump pushing for an examination of what he dubbed a “scam” election in the state he won comfortably. The Texas secretary of state’s office on New Year’s Eve released the …
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There are currently 73 people on the waiting list to speak with a rape counselor at the Sexual Assault Resource Center in Bryan, Texas — the highest number in the organization’s history. The vast majority of the names on that list have been added since September, says Lindsey LeBlanc, the …
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When President Trump announced his plan this week to dispatch as many as 4,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Beto O’Rourke thought back to 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., and of the United States Marine who killed him. Twenty-one years ago, President Clinton deployed American troops to patrol …
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It’s long past time to talk about climate change. I wrote my first feature for Rolling Stone, about the already observable impacts of global warming, back in 2004. The piece, “Diary of a Dying Planet,” leads with a heatwave that killed tens of thousands of Europeans in the summer of …
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