February, 2024

LBJ’s Pop Culture Afterlife Offers a Lesson for Our Polarized Political Times
Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a character type. Our series Playing Texan revisits some of the most notable of these portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to determin...

How Undemocratic Is Gerrymandering? Look at How Blue Texas Could Be if Democrats Drew the Maps.
As they sat down to draw the state’s congressional maps in 2021, Republican state lawmakers in charge of the once-a-decade process pored over detailed electoral and demographic data. This allowed th...

Under The Boot Of Power-Hungry Bureaucrats, We’re All Peanut The Squirrel
We must fight against a future in which the state can't perform its basic functions but has time to harass citizens for adopting squirrels....

The Curious Case of the Texas High School With Two Mascots
In nature, bobcats and deer rarely clash. A bobcat might attack a fawn, but the feline predator is too small to present much threat to an adult deer. At Comfort High School, the peaceful coexistence o...