Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.
Texas
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Red-State Abortion Tactics Push Into Deep-Blue Illinois
How pro-choice advocates in two cities moved to take on anti-abortion lawmakers
Posted inPolitics
Texas Will Mess With You
The state is a national incubator for bad ideas, which it then seeks to project across the nation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Can’t Pay Won’t Pay
Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.
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 inEducation in America
A Small-Town Texas Librarian’s Big Stand Against Book Bans
In Llano County, a local librarian fought back against censorship, prompting a federal court fight and national recognition but losing the job of her dreams.
Posted inHousing
How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.