Nate Silver is one of America’s best-known election forecasters. A statistician and the founder of FiveThirtyEight, he became nationally known after correctly predicting 49 of 50 states in the 2008
They call it a “de-escalation device.” One expert compared the pain to a bee sting. That sounds almost harmless. Until you learn that a Kentucky man was shocked with one
Whether it is Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, or John Whitmire, the cycle of taking money from the poor to hand it to the rich never stops. NRG Energy’s new Greens
Thumbs down: What will County Judge Linda Hidalgo do once she finishes her time in office at the end of this year? Substack author, for one. She made her first big
Most Texans probably know who Dan Patrick is. Vikki Goodwin is another matter. In the latest Texas A&M Bush School/ReconMR poll, Goodwin led Patrick 48% to 46% among likely voters.
The Seats Keep Falling One election can be dismissed as a fluke. Thirty Republican state legislative seats changing hands since Donald Trump returned to office begins to look like something
I will be taking a short trip to Corpus, but this is the first of at least four musical tours of what the music was like for us old Tejanos.
I called the Houston Chronicle a whore. Santiago, my AI research mule, objected. Naturally. I wasn’t accusing anyone at the newspaper of taking an envelope of cash and changing an
In South Texas in the 1920s, a Mexican laborer looking for work could find himself picking cotton for a farmer he had never agreed to work for. The mechanism was
Tonight’s lesson: We didn’t speak bad Spanish. We spoke our Spanish. Our parents gave us the words they knew. Some came from old Spanish, some from Mexico, some from Caló
In 1927, Miguel Venegas left behind a life that, by most standards, had been a good one. He had a wife, Dolores, four young sons, a successful store, ranch property,
Back in the 1990s, I had an idea. I tried to convince some people I considered pretty smart that we needed a permanent organization whose job was to study government
I know how to take tests. I have taken hundreds of them during my lifetime. I know when I have done well, and I know when I have walked out
In South Texas, Mexican Americans created a sound built around the accordion and bajo sexto. It became conjunto, Tejano, and norteño music. In California, something different happened. “Vamos a Bailar”
Decades ago, I met a young Mexican woman in Houston. She had come to the United States illegally. She had children, and somewhere along the way the man in her
I started with a Houston Chronicle story about Tesla considering a $10.1 billion solar manufacturing plant in Fort Bend County. The story told us about the investment. It told us
Donald Trump Shows You How to Qualify
Yesterday I realized that when I ask the AI to find the most-read news, it tends to tilt toward what I like to read, so I told it to do
