Guest Editorial: Texas Democrats can’t admit there is a border crisis
Editorial: Trump’s antics made us so numb, we learned to ignore almost anything. But not this time
Editorial: Can the Forward Party be a landing ground for disaffected moderates?
Times of trouble remind us Texas open government laws are here for everyone
Across the state, Texans are keeping a closer eye on their government. They’re asking questions and demanding information. There’s a renewed awareness of our transparency laws.Times of trouble …
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Disney's latest remake a window into race in America
Witnessing the faces of little Black girls across the nation light up with glee as they saw previews of …
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Commentary: Recruiting crisis should be a wakeup call for the military and its treatment of women
This year, the U.S. military is behind recruiting goals by 23%, with the Army alone estimating it will …
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Commentary: A Texas judge just took religious ‘freedom’ too far
The long march of religious liberty exemptions is gaining speed. The people who brought you contraceptive …
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Commentary: A miss in the Inflation Reduction Act: Better paid leave policies
The Inflation Reduction Act is now law. In the long run, the law is expected to have beneficial …
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Commentary: Isn’t it time we stop hitting our kids?
It’s odd: You’re having dinner with friends in a nice restaurant. One of them reaches for the …
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Commentary: Health care confusion
I’m confused.I got the flu a few months ago, the worst flu I’d ever had. It wasn’t COVID — …
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Commentary: How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court
In 1987, the Senate resoundingly rejected the nomination of Judge Robert Bork for the Supreme Court because it found his originalist views …
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Commentary: Biden’s debt cancellation will help millions, but it won’t end the student loan crisis
In a remarkable move, the Biden administration on Wednesday announced that it would cancel millions of dollars in federal student loans, giving …
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Commentary: This Texas law is bad for church and state
The Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 797 more than a year ago, but school districts and citizens were preoccupied with the pandemic. No one …
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Commentary: Local journalists tell stories national media won’t
A lot of people think that the pinnacle of journalism is working for a publication with national exposure, like The New York Times, Washington …
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Commentary: Do we make bad assumptions about the news coverage we see?
Recently I was struck by a conversation I had with a progressive friend. When I noted the significant decrease in extreme world poverty over the …
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Commentary: What happens when TikTok is your main source of news and information
Sam Wineburg is a professor of education at Stanford University and founder of the Stanford History Education Group, where Nadav Ziv is a …
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Commentary: The keys to living well
Comedian Carl Reiner was good at living well — and he lived well until the age of 98.I recently watched his 2017 HBO documentary, “If …
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Commentary: Guess who’s playing voter manipulation games now
Private citizen Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were absolutely right way back when they kept demanding an investigation of what we’d just …
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Commentary: Veterans become political pawns
It was four in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. …
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COMMENTARY: Big Tech is steamrolling America’s newspapers
Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society — especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played a …
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LETTER: The January 6th hearings prove that Trump is still a threat
To the Editor: The January 6th hearings have wound down for the moment but I won’t forget what I learned — that what happened that day …
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LETTER: Insurrectionists are running for office
To the Editor: The January 6th attack on our nation wasn’t a random act by a handful of sore losers, but a premeditated and organized …
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LETTER: We must elect democracy champions
To the Editor: If we’ve learned anything from the January 6th hearings so far, it’s that Trump and his allies will go to any lengths to gain …
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LETTER: What are book bans really about? Fear?
I have enjoyed reading your newspaper for years, but especially today when I read Mr. Micek’s subject column about my own favorite subject, …
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LETTER: We elect our leaders to represent us, not their bottom line
When Congress passed the STOCK Act in 2012, the law was supposed to stop congressional insider trading, improve transparency, and increase …
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LETTER: It’s time to reform the Supreme Court
Right now, the right to abortion care is at risk because of a deliberate, decades-long takeover of the Supreme Court by powerful right-wing …
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