There’s a piece in this month’s New Yorker called “America’s Future Is Texas.” Noting Texas’ rife politics, cultural innuendoes, and volatile intra-legislative conflict,...
Perhaps nothing weighs so heavily on the conscience of American health care as the rising opioid epidemic. In the past year alone, more than 30,000 people died from opioid overdoses in the United States.
The...
On the 4th of July, I waved the flag, sang the Star-Spangled Banner, and enjoyed BBQ with my family. On the 5th, I learned 60 percent of Americans support a travel ban aimed at Muslims. As a Muslim, I...
Texas has a serious problem with equal pay; it’s existed for years, and the state is not addressing it.
The average Texas woman makes 79 cents for every dollar the average man makes, but that’s...
As cities expand, their graffiti art communities tend to follow suit. Austin’s rapidly transforming urban landscape is no exception — the past few years of our city’s outward sprawl gave...
The day before the end of spring break, my bus lurches through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m riding the LA Metro’s Silver Line, a Bus Rapid Transit...
“MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL” — that’s how President Trump defended his use of social media in a tweet on Saturday. Others have been less flattering: after the president tweeted an...
Ideally, veganism would only be about saving animals, but recently, it seems to be more about shaming non-vegans. Vegans used to share videos on social media showing the cruel treatment of animals before...
A patient manifests symptoms of loss of appetite, dramatic weight loss, body pains, and intense lethargy. Is it a severe infection? Is it cancer? Is it depression? Is there a difference?
Medically,...
Gov. Abbott’s special session call made big news when it was released – the 20 items on the agenda dwarfs the number of topics a governor’s laid for a special session in recent memory....
While it may appear that the pure antipathy between Texas and California has reached a breaking point, a need for the two divisive states to work together persists. It’s apparent if only in the one...
“I want to change my last name,” I told my dad as I walked into his office late that night.
At 16 years old, I enjoyed the trappings of my family’s financial success: a McMansion,...
