Greg Abbott Needs To Put School Safety Into Law
If your children, like mine, were born in the last decade, congratulations! Our kids have been dubbed the “school shooting generation.”
It’s an ominously fitting...
Opinion: How Conservative Evangelicals Got Where They Are Politically, and What To Do
With many waiting to see if 2020 will be the year Texas turns blue, Republicans — and particularly those connected to the far right...
Opinion: COVID-19’s Economic Toll Will Be With Us For Years to Come
The high human cost and loss of life due to COVID-19 is tragic and staggering. Few of us remained untouched by the disease in...
Opinion: Six Questions Confronting Texas Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak
This opinion piece was written by Brandon Rottinghaus, political science professor at the University of Houston.
The spread of COVID-19 and the resulting shelter-in-place orders...
Is It Reckoning Time For Texas Democrats?
In 2024, it will be 30 years since a Democrat was last elected to a statewide office in Texas.
Much has changed during those intervening...
The Handwriting Is on the Wall, Governor
It was Oscar Wilde, in 1889, who opined that “Life imitates art, far more than art imitates life.” I tend to believe it’s both....
Are Private School Vouchers a Threat to Religious and Academic Freedom?
Many of those supporting government funding for private schools, either through vouchers or voucher-like schemes such as Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), at the same...
All Is Merry and Bright…Or Not
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, but hope can drive you insane as well. Hope is a contradiction in terms,...
A FINE MESS
It began last fall in 2023.
Public schools in every corner of Texas began talking about the lack of money to maintain staff and the...
Opinion: November Offers Choice to End Gun Violence or Maintaining Status Quo
We are coming upon an election that will determine our path not only for the next four years but for the foreseeable future, and...
