The state is a national incubator for bad ideas, which it then seeks to project across the nation.
Immigration
Posted inLaw and Justice
Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech
DPS plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on a controversial software, used first as part of Gov. Abbott’s border crackdown, to ‘disrupt potential domestic terrorism.’
Posted inPolitics
The Neighborliness Option
Chicago officials have been terrified that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would inundate the DNC with migrant buses. But the people of Chicago may have already called Abbott’s bluff.
Posted inPolitics
Choose Your Own GOP
Republicans make a play for young voters by arguing there’s room for everybody in the party … unless you’re LGBTQ+.
Posted inWorking in America
A Grand Old Party for Workers?
How corporate conservatism trumps MAGA gestures on behalf of the working class
Posted inPolitics
The RNC, Night Two: The Party as Cult
Remade in Trump’s image, the party nonetheless resurrects ancient attack lines.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Could a Trump Dictatorship Be Resisted?
If he is the next president, we could see civil disobedience on an unprecedented scale. Better to keep him out of the White House in the first place.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Bob Menendez and Biden’s Cuba Policy
With the ultra-hawkish senator disgraced, what’s stopping Biden from resuming normalization of relations with Cuba?
Posted inPolitics
You Don’t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way
Really anxious about this week’s Biden-Trump debate? So is everybody else.
