The Texas Republic was really terrible at war. But the idea of Texas being born from military achievement is variously true and also blown out of all proportion to reality. With the exception of the coup at San Jacinto, Texas’s early military history was a...
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Republican abortion policy is working out just fine in Texas. Close all the reproductive clinics that serve poor people because those sluts deserve whatever they get for having sex while.
Texas Attorney General and likely next governor, Greg Abbott: Greg Abbott unveiled his latest policy proposal in Dallas yesterday, a border security proposal that Abbott called his "Securing Texans Plan.".
The Republican War on Women, Texas Edition, is having the precise effects Rick Perry and the gang hoped: In the Rio Grande Valley, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller told msnbc, doctors are struggling to care for women who have complications from self-induced abortions....
Look, I can't see why everyone is after Steve Stockman just because his campaign headquarters was an overcrowded sweatshop where volunteers lived and worked without safety precautions and was declared.
The Dallas Morning News, which has been outstanding on covering the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion and its aftermath, has a strongly damning report on the response to the disaster.
Tonight's look at the past is even weirder and more unsettling than usual. This is a 1950 newsreel clip of Austin woman Louella Gallagher, who put on public knife throwing shows that featured her own daughters. I wish I could find a way to work...
Who is having trouble registering to vote under the new Texas voter ID law? None other than former Speaker of the House Jim Wright. Now 90, he doesn't have a.
Dumb upon dumb: The Alamo will not fall under United Nations control if it is named a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Texas Land commission assured Texans on Wednesday, according.
Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city's construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent contractors to avoid labor law. They then place these workers in dangerous situations, take advantage...
In yet another example of why the enormous differences between the two parties matter, we have U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. Appointed by Reagan, Hughes is an open racist and.
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.