Nate Silver Gives James Talarico a 2-to-1 Chance of Winning Texas
Nate Silver is one of America’s best-known election forecasters. A statistician and the founder of FiveThirtyEight, he became nationally known […]
Dead or in Prison by Eighteen
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was sixteen, I got a traffic ticket. I thought the ticket was wrong, so
The US went to war for land and slaves
You won’t find it in our history books, but one reason—perhaps one of the major reasons—the United States invaded Mexico
Sam Altman Says Workers Secretly Like Being Busy. He Should Ask One.
Sam Altman has an interesting theory about American workers. Artificial intelligence may make people enormously more productive, he says, but
Houston Charges Poor Families $5 More a Month for Garbage — Then Hands NRG Tens of Millions in Tax Breaks
Whether it is Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, or John Whitmire, the cycle of taking money from the poor to hand
Republicans Would Rather Spend $2 Billion Stoking Trump’s Stupidity Than Feeding Children.
It’s Easy to Spend Someone Else’s Money — Especially When It’s $2 Billion When Houston Congressman Mickey Leland went to
8.11.2026 – News Americans Are Reading
Using AP’s Most Read list plus major national front-page coverage as the best morning snapshot of reader interest. (AP News)
Republicans – a party of Rabid, Incompetent Idiots.
A senior Republican congressional staffer says conservative organizations spent years choosing ideological loyalty over competence. Now he says they have
A Mexican Will Never Be President
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was a boy, a teacher asked the class a question adults often ask children.
The Texas County That Ordered All Mexicans Out
In September 1856, white residents of Colorado County, Texas, became convinced that hundreds of enslaved people were preparing to rise
Our Past Wasn’t Always Beautiful. That’s Why We Must Teach It.
Screwworm science offers an accidental lesson about the fraud of American eugenics. There is a strange lesson hiding inside the
Proud to Be Brown
How young Texans with little money and a lot of shoe leather built La Raza Unida — and what Texas
8.10.2026 – news Americans are reading
A snapshot of stories leading or trending across major U.S. news sites this morning, rather than a literal national readership
Camp Ringgold, Rio Grande City, the fort that Texas forgot.
Digital Edition My parents are from Starr County, and we visited our grandparents, our uncles, and our cousins, but I
What If Houston Likes Flock Cameras Because They’re Useful to ICE?
Houston is expanding a network of cameras capable of recording license plates and helping police determine where vehicles have traveled.
8.9.2026 – News Americans are reading
Iran hardens its position as Strait of Hormuz crisis continues — Iran says direct U.S. talks will not resume while
Starr County 1860 Census
With the help of ChatGPT and hours of work, we created the 1860 census for Starr County, Texas. If you
