In a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP...
Is Elon Musk OK? Just a few months ago, the prancing right-winger was constantly in the news. Today, though – Poof! – he has vanished from media coverage....
A gaggle of self-righteous multimillionaires are now in charge of America’s poverty agencies and policies, and they’ve been flaunting their deeply-held ignorance about poor families – almost none of whom they actually know....
Will Rogers joked that when thousands of rural Oklahomans fled the 1930s Dust Bowl and migrated to California: “It raised the intellectual level of both states.” Following that line of reasoning, it occurred to me...
Frenetic crowds are storming the White House like a Black Friday mob at Walmart! Only these are not shoppers scrambling for family needs – these are CEOs, lobbyists, and billionaires out to “get theirs” in...
Has your family visited any of America’s phenomenal national parks or historical sites this summer? What treasures they are! Also, visits to these jewels are enriched by the deeply-knowledgeable Park Service staff. And, of course,...
In 2018 my newspaper died. Well, actually, the emaciated carcass of the Austin American Statesman still had a feeble pulse. But its journalistic voice and soul were gone, stripped out by the notorious financial predators...
If you want to learn how to play the game, boys and girls, forget all that old-fashioned stuff like “do your best,” “be a good sport,” and “respect the game.” ...
Some outrages are so outrageous that I don’t even want to talk about them. But that’s when we must speak out. Indeed, let’s rage against our government’s wholly-unprincipled embrace of (and direct participation in) the...
To paraphrase British historian Lord Acton: “[Money] tends to corrupt, and absolute [money] corrupts absolutely.” During my time as a Texas elected official, I happened to witness an almost vaudevillian performance of Lord Acton’s axiom...