In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health
The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a potentially harmful natural gas plant.
Opinion
Why I Still Believe Texas Can Be Better
"Texas taught me contradiction. It taught me how to love a place that doesn’t always love me back."
The Perils of Offshoring Justice
Texas and the U.S.-El Salvador prison pipeline
Texas Shouldn’t Legislate Censorship
Public libraries are for the public—and that means access for all.
AI Is Dead
A Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way he’d ever use it to write a book.
Costly New Bail Bills Would Needlessly Jail More People
Texas politicians are wasting your money to punish the working class.
The ‘Texas Three-Step’: Defund, Demonize, and Privatize Public Schools
Vouchers become subsidies for families who had already decided to pay for private school, at the expense of public schools that must serve all students.
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Who Really Benefits from School Vouchers?
I do not pretend to know the motivation of Jeff Yass. But I do know that Mr. Yass is not a Texan, and I also know that Texas is not for sale.
Cartels Are Not ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations,’ but Terror in Mexico Is Real
It is difficult to determine how these heterogeneous crime groups target the United States, but Mexican authorities need to respond to what might be called domestic terrorism.
This Aspiring Social Worker Should Not Be Blacklisted
Imposing permanent punishments for old mistakes backfires by reducing the talent pool to address Texas’ social worker shortage.