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 followers away from vaccines, advocating for faith healing and pushing the debunked notion that vaccines...
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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.
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 State of Texas to avoid having the entire state returned to DoJ pre-clearance under 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.
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.
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 I do this kind of thing, the less I sound like a bumbling idiot. Was...
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.
We don't hear too many stories anymore like last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, where the death toll has now risen to 15. This is because we have.