The second week of the impeachment hearings may be the last. But there’s still a lot of ground to cover.
Texas
Posted inPolitics
The Rise of Ma and Pa Paxton?
If history repeats itself, the attorney general’s wife could prosper even if he goes down in an impeachment trial.
Posted inTransportation
The Battle to Link Up Texas
Could an Amtrak partnership get a real high-speed rail line built between Dallas and Houston?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Activist Hedge Fund Turns the Screws at NRG Energy
Elliott Management is asking FERC to let it purchase up to one-fifth of the common stock in a Texas utility.
Posted inTAP
The War on Libraries
Today on TAP: Far-right state governments fear allowing children to think for themselves.
Posted inTAP
The Republican Attack on Tenure
Today on TAP: The defenders of tenure as protecting academic freedom would have more credibility if they had resisted the plague of adjunct appointees, who have neither job security nor decent pay.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Black Political Power Still Traumatizes the White South
After ‘Milligan,’ some redistricting cases may find their way back to state lawmakers who fear Black voters—and the multiracial coalitions they can anchor.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Dow’s River
On the Brazos River in Texas, one chemical company reigns supreme.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Congress Short-Circuits the Electric Grid
It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.
Posted inTAP
Battlefield Reports From Our New Civil War
Today on TAP: Two Prospect pieces on red and blue trifecta states make clear we really are two separate nations.
