César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read of the day. It'd be nice of course if Guernica chose an image that was...
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Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned.
Very interesting. I do agree with the belief that Texas is uncharted country for progressives and Democrats more broadly. For the labor movement, this makes tremendous sense. For one, despite.
Among the many problems with fracking is how we have prioritized the fossil fuel industry's access to precious water supplies over that of regular citizens. In Texas, where fracking goes unchallenged and where extraordinary drought has challenged all users of water, towns are losing their...
In an article that I'd have thought I wrote if the byline hadn't told me otherwise, Allen Clifton at Forward Progressives is suitably amused by the legal strategy of the.
Stephen Greenhouse has an outstanding article on worker centers, particularly the Texas-based Workers Defense Project, that provide union-like groups to some of the poorest workers in the United States, especially.
Please please please please let this happen: Louie Gohmert for Senate? That’s what a number of Texas tea-party activists are hoping for. They’re not happy with Senator John Cornyn, and Katrina Pierson, who serves on the Texas Tea Party Caucus Advisory Board, tells me she’s...
The great Texas writer John Graves has passed. Goodbye to a River, about a float trip down the Brazos before it was dammed, is a truly wonderful book.
One thing about Texas is how strongly its residents buy into the whole mythologizing bullshit about how great it is. This is true even of a lot of lefty Texans,.
Remember the West, Texas factory explosion. It's been 2 weeks and the story has almost completely disappeared from the media while CNN continued its 24-hour coverage of the latest details in the Boston Marathon bombings at least until late last week. The lack of follow-up...
I was on the Alternet Radio Hour with Joshua Holland on Saturday, talking Texas, Bangladesh, and my joyous past with right-wingers trying to get me fired. Turns out the more.
Rick Perry, relatively indifferent to the West, Texas fertilizer explosion, outraged at Jack Ohman editorial cartoon that would blame Texas' lax regulatory climate for it.