Louis Dubose

My paternal great-grandfather maintained what might have been the last functioning outhouse in Vermillion Parish, Louisiana. Years after indoor plumbing had become available in the small, rice-farming community of Indian Bayou, he refused to install an indoor flush toilet. His … Read More

Tempting Faith:An Inside Story of Political Seduction There are so many religious pimps, hustlers, and con-men in David Kuo’s account of his political career that it reads like a novela picaresca, the Spanish literary genre in which a young man … Read More

The Broken Branch: The cub reporter concluding his first day at the Legislature was appalled by what he had witnessed: vacuous oratory, ad hominem attacks, lobbyists buying votes, and a shoving match on the House floor. “If you think they’re … Read More

God Bless you Tony Rudy—are we the only ones with political instincts—This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS—Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head … Read More

When Jan Reid and I set out to write a book about Tom DeLay in 2003, we assumed we would be writing about a subject whose political philosophy was alien to ours—not about organized crime. But a criminal conspiracy—with our … Read More

Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino Youth Lester Maddox was never my favorite American politician. But the racist gargoyle from Georgia (or does that better describe his one-time aide Zell Miller) was good for the occasional one-liner. I … Read More

On September 29, 2004, Arizona Senator John McCain made a promise to six Indian tribes defrauded in an $82-million lobby billing scandal perpetrated by two close associates of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: “To the aggrieved tribes and Native Americans … Read More