Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent much of his political career surrounded by the language of God, marriage, and conservative family values. Now those words are following him into
A new Texas Tribune story from San Antonio describes something that is becoming increasingly important across Texas: immigrants are changing the way they live because they fear that an ordinary
Gov. Greg Abbott says “Texans must come first.” I hope he means it. I don’t think he does. Texas is in the middle of an enormous data-center boom. The projects
I have known Orlando Sanchez for more than 20 years. He is a nice guy. I have nothing personal against him. But nice is not enough. We already have a
Who Told ICE Where the Witness Was? The most troubling question in the case of ICE arresting a Houston crime witness is the simplest one: How did ICE know where
We don’t have to look far to find what REAL MEN DO. A real man would have done what George W. Bush did on September 11. Bush was told Washington
Sam Altman has an interesting theory about American workers. Artificial intelligence may make people enormously more productive, he says, but don’t expect everyone to use that productivity to work fewer
A senior Republican congressional staffer says conservative organizations spent years choosing ideological loyalty over competence. Now he says they have created “a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.” Sometimes a political
Screwworm science offers an accidental lesson about the fraud of American eugenics. There is a strange lesson hiding inside the return of the New World screwworm to Texas. The United
How young Texans with little money and a lot of shoe leather built La Raza Unida — and what Texas Democrats might learn from them today When I was a
Houston is expanding a network of cameras capable of recording license plates and helping police determine where vehicles have traveled. Officials can point to an obvious reason for them: crime.
Twenty-three thousand jobs disappeared from U.S. payrolls in July. Wall Street responded by setting a record. The S&P 500 rose 0.62 percent Friday to a record high. The Nasdaq jumped
The Object From the Beginning Was to Terrorize — Even to the Point of Death The death of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo in a New Jersey immigration jail might have been reported
Greg Abbott Is Still the Favorite. But He Can Hear the Hooves Behind Him. Greg Abbott Talked About Shooting People at the Border. Latino Texans Need to Hear It Before
There are political polls, and then there are political polls that make you stop and look at who conducted them. Candidates and political organizations have been releasing favorable internal polls
Republicans Say They Hate Wokeness—Until Bobby Pulido Is Not Woke Enough Republicans have spent years telling Americans that liberals are too sensitive, political correctness has gone too far, and nobody
Thank You, Jolanda Jones and the Houston Chronicle, for Doing to Our Children What the Segregationists Used to Do to Us I grew up in a different America. The schools
I recall the first vote I cast for a Republican; it was for Ronald Reagan. Back then, the Republican Party stood for family values. The new, rebuilt Republican Party led
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is presented as a six-part television drama rather than a documentary, but its most disturbing moments come when it moves beyond the search for
Indiana adopted the nation’s first eugenic sterilization law in 1907. Other states followed. In 1927, the United States Supreme Court upheld Virginia’s forced-sterilization law in Buck v. Bell. Justice Oliver
