‘What Do Americans Think?’—and by ‘Americans,’ We Mean Right-Wing Texans
Media are still trying to turn Trump’s decision into a problem for the party that didn’t launch the unpopular war rather than for the one that did.
‘Texas Is Fighting for Its Right to Lay Concertina Wire’
“We will continue down this really ugly road of, how violent are we willing to get with people? That’s the question we’re at in 2024.”
Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
What if there isn’t a “border crisis” so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
The Real Border Crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution
A Southern state invoking its “sovereignty” in defense of violent and inhumane policing of non-white people sounds eerily familiar.
Trans Youth Targeted by Texas Are Marginalized by Corporate Media
Bigotry is experiencing an unprecedented mainstreaming—through the calculations of conservative media, and the indifference of centrist media.
‘These Attacks Are on Children and Their Families’
“When we talk about gender-affirming care, it’s not an ambiguous, abstract concept. It is medically necessary, life-saving care.”
‘The Tax Break Industrial Complex Has Not Been Challenged’
“If fossil fuels paid their full freight for their extraction and their burning, we’d have a very different incentive system.”
Laura Carlsen on Biden’s Central America Policy, Greg LeRoy on Texas Corporate Subsidies
The notion of real change after Donald Trump is undermined by a close look at Biden’s actual immigration policy.
Coverage of Texas’ Declaration of Covid Victory Left Out Rapidly Rising Toll
Coverage failed to mention is that Covid-19 cases and deaths were rising significantly in Texas and Mississippi in the days leading up to their governors’ announcements of an end to public health measures.
‘The System Worked as Designed in Texas; That’s the Really Scary Thing’
“We at Food & Water Watch have called publicly, loudly, for a public takeover of electric utilities and power generation, so that it can actually be governed democratically for the good of the people.”
Power Analysis Failure
The way the New York Times covered the Texas energy crisis obscured rather than illuminated its causes.
Mitch Jones on Texas Freeze-Outs, Joe Torres on News for All the People
If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.
Rick Perry’s Jobs ‘Swagger’
On NBC Nightly News (8/16/11): ANDREA MITCHELL: Perry’s Texas swagger is his calling card, bred of a hardscrabble boyhood on the family farm and Aggie roots at Texas A&M. Perry’s chief claim to challenging President Obama is the Texas jobs record. Perry says his state produced 40 percent of all the jobs created across America […]
The Secret of Rick Perry’s Texas Jobs Miracle? Government Jobs
The speculation about whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry will jump into the Republican presidential race boils down to one word: Jobs. Perry’s state has been generating jobs at an impressive rate–which Perry likes to think is due to low taxes and lax regulations. Some of the coverage points to important caveats–the booming oil economy, for […]
Textbooks as Weapons in Texas’ ‘Education War’
The United Farm Workers have a new action alert (7/24/09) about “an education war going on in Texas” they note has “major national implications as Texas is such a major purchaser of textbooks and their state’s required curriculum drives the content of textbooks produced nationwide.” Specifically, “the Texas State Board of Education is currently preparing […]
