The Serious Stuff, the Loud Stuff, the Money Stuff: A Preview of the 87th Texas Lege Come January of any other odd-numbered year, I’d use this space to rile…
American Democracy Survived Ted Cruz’s Demagoguery—This Time By the middle of the afternoon, January 6, 2021, had become one of the most shameful days in the history of the…
Showdown at the Salon: How Hairdressing Became the Thing We Fight About in the Middle of the Pandemic In eighteenth-century France, salons were gatherings where the free exchange of…
The Majority Agrees: Lifting Stay-Home Orders Won’t Bring Normalcy (But It Will Get People Killed) The American people have spoken: We want to get back to work. The “social…
FROM THE PILLOW FORT IN MY APARTMENT, APRIL 13—To paraphrase one of America’s greatest-ever military leaders, you face a pandemic with the state government you have, not the state government…
