The Grimes Scene
Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight
The grassroots group of reproductive justice activists have seized a terrifying political moment and created a defiant act of pop-cultural resistance.
In white bonnets and bright-red robes, they sit silently in protest as lawmakers usher in yet another bill that will make it harder for Texans to access abortio...Read More
Seize the Trumpportunity! President Offers Both Parties Chance to Reinvent Themselves
Democrats and Republicans should treat this new administration as a soul-searching opportunity to return to their principles.
I remember the first time I wrote a letter to John Cornyn, probably 10 years ago. The issue was abortion, and I asked the senator to consider the possibility th...Read More
Abbott’s Back Alley Abortion Politics are a Texas Tradition
If lawmakers don't get the abortion restrictions they want from the Lege, they boss the health department around instead.
If Texas lawmakers don't get the abortion restrictions they want during the Lege session, they just boss the state health department around instead....Read More
In a Tiresome and Frustrating Election, I’m with … Her?
I am tired of fighting for respect in my own life; I wish not to make a woman fight for mine because of an elusive likability scale that works against us....Read More
If the GOP’s Worried About Safety, They’re Banning the Wrong People from Bathrooms
If the GOP is so worried about protecting kids, they would do well to ignore transgender Texans altogether and focus on the real threat: cisgender men....Read More
Boycott Boycotts
It’s easy to boycott a place you visit never, a state you imagine to be full of bumpkins and hicks. Much harder: working to create change in red states....Read More
Refreshingly Fascist
It's easy to avoid hypocrisy when you don't have any principles in the first place.
I have a question I’m afraid to hear the answer to: is there any degree of hypocrisy, or ideological dishonesty, that people won’t put up with when it comes...Read More
Jonathan Stickland’s Pot Antics are Comical. His Views on Rape are Terrifying.
Update, 12:48 p.m.: After my piece ran Wednesday morning, Stickland called to say he “severely regrets” the comments he’d made in the past. H...Read More
Ted Cruz is Right. There’s No War on Women.
The draconian policies favored by the GOP are better described as a war on the American family.
Indeed, if you want a home for policies that restrict legal abortion, that would ban birth control, that decry parental leave as unnecessary, that deride breast...Read More
Greg Shames the Sheriff
Instead of focusing on the business of governing the state — I take this aspect of his job as a given, considering the man’s title, though it seems I may be...Read More