| Aug 27, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP had used as the pin point for slicing up the city’s one...
| Jul 16, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up in Texas, many of my summers were spent at summer church camps just like Camp Mystic, where 27 girls died in the recent flash floods. Over 130 people in central Texas have been confirmed dead overall. Had I been just a few years younger, it’s hard not to...
| Sep 18, 2024 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a ballot measure. The petition, which Menasche had indeed signed, was for a November initiative overturning a strict abortion...
| Feb 21, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials...
| Jan 31, 2024 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So my friend Steve Fromholz recommended a big beautiful wall across our northern border to keep them out. Fromholz, a...
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