Forty-six percent of this country’s electorate voted for Donald J. Trump to be our president. The fivethirtyeight.com average of approval ratings show Trump’s poll numbers currently stand at...
Recent headlines have emphasized a decrease in the government’s funding of educational programs and institutions, both at the national and state level. Frequent readers will recall that I spent the...
Horns down: Farewell, spring break
It’s usually great to be back in Austin after a break, but spring break isn’t always the best. Sure, South by Southwest is fun if you have deep pockets...
Science is not a partisan issue. Yet polarized views of science have emerged that seemingly back certain legislative agendas. Scientists, at one time, revered for their expertise and sought out for advice...
“Once built, it was doomed, sooner or later, to come down,” wrote the historian Donald P. Steury for the CIA’s 2011 publication “A City Torn Apart, Building of the Berlin Wall.”...
For those who were comforted by President Donald Trump’s pledge to protect the LGBT community from “violence and oppression,” don’t get too comfortable. You are forgetting about...
Doctors should never be able to withhold vital information from expecting parents and not face repercussions for their deceit. This could become a reality if Senate Bill 25, authored by Sen. Brandon Creighton,...
Both the winners and the runners-up in this year’s Executive Alliance election vowed during their campaigns to continue Kevin Helgren’s legacy of confronting racial harassment on and around...
Since the beginning of my undergraduate career, I have witnessed an exponential rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric. In my second semester of college, three Muslim students from the University of North Carolina...
Recently, there has been an apparent uptick in anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents nationwide that has not gone unnoticed. Over the last two months, 140 bomb threats have been called into Jewish Community...
Donald Trump is not just any Republican president. He is an unstable autocrat perpetually torn between his desire to exert control and his desire to say breathtakingly stupid things. But even as the man...
Last week, Capital Metro approved its Connections 2025 draft network plan, which will guide a reimagining of Austin’s public transit system over the next several years. For much of Austin, there’s...
