Tag Archives: Irving
House District 105 is Gerrymandered but Diversifying. Will Republicans Eke Out Another Win?
In the last decade, Democrats have come within a few percentage points of winning House District 105 in the Dallas suburbs three times. In 2008, the year of the...Read More
Here are the Highlights from Ahmed Mohamed’s Blistering New Lawsuit
Featuring America's history of racial oppression, the poem from the Statue of Liberty and a few f-bombs.
A suit over the arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, who brought a homemade clock to school, puts it all in the context of America's history of racism. (Also, f-bombs.)...Read More
The Crank Factory
How the right-wing media and a small band of activists turned Irving into a hotbed of hatred.
Glenn Beck turns to Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving, his face lit with his signature mixture of excitement and manic alarm. “Let me just propose a theory,...Read More
The Real Real Muslims of Texas
It is impossible to take a sliver of Muslim life in one city and say: This is what it means to be a Muslim. But an Esquire writer recently tried it, anyway....Read More
Teen Clockmaker Arrested in One of Texas’ Most Punitive School Districts
When we talk about how schools and police conspire to criminalize children, we have a wealth of extreme examples we can point to. There’s Noe Nino de Rivera, ...Read More