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Peaceably Assemble: The NRA Comes to Houston
by Jeremy Smith / Posted on | No CommentsThis weekend, an estimated 70,000 people converged on the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston to attend the 142nd National Rifle Association Annual Meeting and Exhibits.
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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses—We Have Private Prisons to Fill
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 1 CommentSince 2005, immigration has been criminalized as never before.
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The Priest Who Travels With Bodyguards
by Melissa del Bosque / Posted on | 1 CommentFather Alejandro Solalinde isn’t well known in the United States. But in Mexico, he is recognized for his bravery. He dares to speak out about corrupt government officials, and organized crime, and he shelters migrants from the cartels.
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Dan Patrick On Parade: Life in the New Senate Education Committee
by Olivia Messer / Posted on | 9 CommentsDan Patrick’s reign over the Senate Education Committee has been a fascinating mix of empathy and cruelty, peaceful agreement and hostile shouting matches. In some ways, not much has changed since his days as a hot-tempered outsider.
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In West Explosion, Echoes of Another Texas Tragedy
by Bill Minutaglio / Posted on | 6 CommentsThe explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on Wednesday raises the same questions that followed the 1947 disaster in Texas City, the largest industrial accident in American history.
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