Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1Historic Runoff Turnout Sets Stage for Texas Democrats in 2020’s ‘Biggest Battleground’

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3Doctors Reverse Course, Say Texas GOP Should Cancel In-Person Convention

4The Next Census Could Determine the Future of Port Arthur

5Texas Had a State Office That Could Have Investigated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases. Lawmakers Defunded it Three Years Ago.

6The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

Most Recent in Environment:

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3Texas Relaxed Environmental Enforcement During the Pandemic, State Data Show

4Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

5City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

6Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

Most Recent in Border:

1El Paso Remembered

2Back to the Wall

3Between Borders

5Along the Border, Witnesses of Smuggling Crimes Are Being Held in Detention, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

6In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

2How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell?

3Reform vs. Rebuild: Defunding Law Enforcement in Texas

4As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Some Incarcerated People Remain Behind Bars After Making Bail

5A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

6COVID-19 Has Delayed Programs That Texas Prisoners Need to Get Out

Most Recent in Education:

1The New Ensemble

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

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

5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

6The Cost of Carve-Outs

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Telehealth Could be Great, if Texans Had Access to It

2Texas Nursing Home Residents Were Already at Risk. Then COVID-19 Hit.

3Neglected in Care

4COVID-19 is Surging in Rural Texas, Threatening to Overwhelm Local Hospitals

5He Removed Labels That Said ‘Medical Use Prohibited,’ Then Tried to Sell Thousands of Masks to Officials Who Distribute to Hospitals

6Promising Results Reported for COVID-19 Patients Treated with Plasma Therapy in Texas

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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:

1‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies

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3In ‘Separated,’ One Journalist’s Close-up View of the Family Separation Crisis

4Lawrence Wright Embraces Pandemic Panic in ‘The End of October’

5Is it Time to Rethink Texas Suburbia?

6What’s a Bookstore for?

Most Recent in Features:

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3San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

4The Ghosts of Jefferson

5Little Arthouse on the Prairie

6The Clothes that Make the Man

Most Recent in Essay:

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2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3What’s a Bookstore for?

4Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

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1Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

2Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

3Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

5Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

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

Articles tagged: 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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