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1Trump Harvests Support in America’s Farmlands

2As Fossil Fuel Industry Invests Billions in New Texas Facilities, it Could Unleash a Huge Emissions Bomb

3Loon Star: The Governor Shows His Concern for the Homeless

4The Internet Broke Democracy. To Fix It, Design for Human Rights.

5Ken Paxton Says New Anti-Abortion Law Bars State Employees from Donating to Planned Parenthood

6Hemp Snafu Offers Texas Cities a Way to Decriminalize Marijuana

Most Recent in Environment:

1As Fossil Fuel Industry Invests Billions in New Texas Facilities, it Could Unleash a Huge Emissions Bomb

2Trump Has Kneecapped Another Environmental Safeguard. Could That Spur Expanded Uranium Mining in South Texas?

3Five Times the Effects of Climate Change Loomed Over Texas in 2019

4The EPA Faces Lawsuit Over Slaughterhouse Pollution in Waterways

5Report: As TCEQ Sits Idle, Polluters Double Illegal Air Pollution in 2018

6Bald Eagle Numbers at Lake Buchanan Are Declining. No One’s Exactly Sure Why.

Most Recent in Border:

1ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities

2‘Life is a Fight’: Scenes from a Migrant Tent Camp in Juárez

3A Radical Proposal Calls for a Moratorium on Deportations

4‘Baby Jails’ Chronicles America’s ‘Shameful’ Treatment of Migrant Kids

52020: The Year Trump’s Wall Rises or Falls

6Report: Sexual Assault is Common in Immigrant Prisons, but Survivors Aren’t Getting Help

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1A Solitary Condition

25 Texas Criminal Justice Stories to Watch in 2020

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4In Dallas, Churches Break the Law to Shelter Homeless People on Freezing Nights

5Why a Small Offense Shouldn’t Have Life-Altering Consequence

6Federal Report Flags High Rates of Sexual Abuse in Texas Juvenile Lockups

Most Recent in Education:

1‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

2The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

3The Cost of Carve-Outs

4Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

5Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

6‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Trump Administration Approves Medicaid Funds for Texas While Excluding Planned Parenthood

2In Texas, Thousands of Kids Lose Medicaid Coverage Each Month

3We Asked You About Health Care in Rural Texas. Here are Your Stories.

4How the San Antonio Police Are Rethinking Mental Health

5Ken Paxton Says New Anti-Abortion Law Bars State Employees from Donating to Planned Parenthood

6This West Texas Town is a Reproductive Health Void

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2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

3Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

4Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

Most Recent in Books:

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2The 30 Best Texas Books of The Decade, from Amarillo to Utopia

3A World Without Immigrant Prisons

4Two New Books Explore the Limits of the #MeToo Movement in Texas and Beyond

5I’ve Lived in East Austin for 60 Years, and I Don’t Recognize it Anymore

6American Cities Weren’t Revitalized by the White ‘Creative Class.’ Immigrants Made Them Great.

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1The Ghosts of Jefferson

2Little Arthouse on the Prairie

3The Clothes that Make the Man

4Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

5Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

6At Home in the World

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2Governor Abbott’s Campaign Against the Homeless Isn’t Just Cruel—It’s Dangerous

3Why a Small Offense Shouldn’t Have Life-Altering Consequence

4Why I Started a Book Club in the Harris County Jail

5A Chain Reaction

6Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

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2Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

3Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

4Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

5Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

6Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Tag Archives: George P. Bush

An El Paso family bring flowers to the makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso

by Michael Barajas

White Terror on the Border

After an anti-immigrant shooting in El Paso, Texas’ GOP leaders blamed mental health and video games rather than gun laws and white supremacy.

Sun, Aug 4, 2019 |

On Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after a white gunman killed 20 people and injured two dozen more at an El Paso Walmart, Fox News called on Texas Lieutenan...Read More

family separation

by Justin Miller

What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

While desperate immigrant families are torn apart and children sent to “tent cities” in Texas, most of the state’s prominent Republicans are more than happy to get behind Trump.

Mon, Jun 18, 2018 |

Over the past couple of weeks, the nation has been forced to confront the realities of President Trump’s goal of stopping immigration at the southern border w...Read More

George P. Bush

Students Play Hooky to Rally for School Choice

Fri, Jan 30, 2015 |

Billed as the largest school choice rally in Texas history, hundreds of people, mostly children in matching yellow scarves marched on the Capitol on Friday. ...Read More

George P. Bush

by Andrea Grimes

Breitbart Texas: All Thunder, No Rain

Tue, Sep 23, 2014 |

Breitbart Texas has imported an inside-the-Beltway model of smear “journalism” that’s blatantly partisan, enthusiastically flakkish and of a type not comm...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

George P. Bush on Climate Change: Yes, No, Maybe So

Thu, Sep 4, 2014 |

In which George P. Bush suggests he might be concerned about climate change, then runs from it, in less than a week....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

WTF Friday: Defending Creationalism

Fri, Dec 20, 2013 |

Three stocking stuffers for you this week in WTF Friday: Dewhurst and "creationalism," Steve Stockman and rodeo clows and George P. Bush gets humble....Read More

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