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Dispatch from the DNC: Sanders Supporters Shouldn’t Follow Stein Over Crank Cliff
Two left-of-the-left organizing events on the fringes of the DNC present a forked path: Should the alt-left organize with Dems, or go their own way?...Read More
NBA, NCAA Moves Could Be Game-Changers for Anti-LGBT Legislation in Texas
The NBA and NCAA may have just dealt a preemptive, one-two knockout punch to anti-LGBT bills in the upcoming Texas Legislature, which convenes in January. First...Read More
Dispatch from the DNC: The ‘Real’ Hillary, as Told by Bill
Bill Clinton deconstructed, then reconstructed, Hillary Clinton's public legacy in Philadelphia Tuesday night, deriding right-wing attacks as cartoonish....Read More
Dispatch from the DNC: The Dems are All Right
Nobody knows how to worry and fret quite like Democrats.
The media will lead with the booing, but if Dems can’t win this year, they have much bigger problems than Bernie’s holdouts. And so does the country....Read More
Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants
In a settlement, Texas has been forced to clarify which forms of ID it'll accept from undocumented parents who say they were denied their kids' records....Read More
The Texas Miracle #14: Make Pokemon Great Again
Texas country artist Coffey Anderson talks about his viral police video, plus the best Pokemon Go tips from Texas journalism's biggest Poke-fan.
News outlets are going wild for Pokemon Go, plus a Texas country music artist who's made the national spotlight thanks to a viral video about police....Read More
The GOP is Gaslighting America — on National Television
Today's GOP leaders aren't playing politics as usual. They're using abusive tactics to manipulate the public.
Trump's GOP isn't politics as usual — it's a party comfortable with using gaslighting and intimidation, tactics favored by abusers, to win at all costs....Read More
The Scholarly Reviews are in on that ‘Deeply Offensive’ Mex-Am Studies Text
And they are not good: 'Willfully irresponsible, culturally chauvinist and discriminatory.'
The scholarly reviews are in on that ‘deeply offensive’ Mexican-American history textbook proposed for Texas schools — and they are not good....Read More
The Texas Miracle #13: Would Jesus Say Black Lives Matter?
This week on the podcast: Our resident theologian unpacks the Beatitudes for the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd, while Prairie View remembers Sandra Bland on the anniversary of her death.
Our resident theologian unpacks the Beatitudes for the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd, and Black activists and scholars join us for a racial justice roundtable....Read More