Trump’s Growing Culture of Corruption: When Loyalty Becomes Protection Corruption grows when public officials begin to believe that consequences are negotiable. A conviction becomes something a powerful friend can rescue
Police Discover Privacy—When the Cameras Watch Them A Canadian software engineer has found a remarkably effective way to explain the problem with surveillance: point the camera in the other direction.
. A Person’s Actions Can Reveal Intent Did the ICE agent run over the man on purpose? You be the judge. I had not paid much attention to this story
Houston City Council’s October 7 approval of a $2.6 million car-wash contract raises a question much larger than the cost of washing city vehicles: Why is Mayor John Whitmire’s administration
Camargo, Revilla, Mier, and Laredo were among the original Settlements on the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande borderlands. The Families of Camargo: The 1757 Census Households, named residents, and the mission community
Billionaire Money Meets the Blue Wave The Republican billionaires are piling up money like sandbags against a rising blue wave. My reading is that it may already be too late
Corpus Christi, Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Seagulls need more than the ocean’s misty, salty spray; they need fresh water falling from the sky. Two for two. By the Rain Man’s
Shattered Ribbons: Forced Partition Along the Starr County Riverlands In the arid brush country of Starr County, survival has always depended on access to the Rio Grande, where 18th-century Spanish
If the Trump administration goes through with its proposed execution livestream, America will adopt a practice it has condemned abroad: making a person’s death a public spectacle. The Pentagon announced
For those searching for ancestors. I have spent about 15 years researching ancestors; information is hard to find. So I hope this helps a few of you. But if nothing
I am not endorsing Steve Radack, but I have written that I do not plan to vote for Leslie Briones. In one four-year term, she has accumulated over $4 million
Seven AIs were asked to estimate Trump’s IQ based on his speeches; they estimated it to be between 85 and 105. An IQ of 80 is roughly at the 9th
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Graciela Olivárez reached law school without a high school diploma or a college degree. Before earning those credentials, she had already become an advocate for Mexican Americans and poor families.
Deport the Witness, Protect the Criminal A government cannot credibly promise to protect Americans while frightening crime victims and witnesses away from the police. Trump’s approach to immigration enforcement creates
Food safety is no place to gamble with people’s lives. Trump’s administration has pursued cuts to public health agencies and delayed an important food safety requirement while Americans are getting
For more than 30 years, Texas Republicans have been very good at one thing: giving voters somebody to fear. Immigrants. Crime. Socialists. Gays. Transgender people. Woke schools. The border. Election
This is John Whitmire’s third year as Mayor; he has quit blaming his predecessor for the problems, but he recently blamed the “Staff.” I guess I should be grateful that
I recently read an article there, and I told myself they are playing with statistics. There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. When an article gives numbers that suggest people
In 1918, Texas allowed women to vote in Democratic primaries for the first time. About 386,000 women registered for the July 27 primary. Black women, however, were still excluded from
