Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

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Texas’ leaders must recognize threat of climate change

Alden Marshall November 16, 2016

Last Tuesday, Hillary Clinton may have lost the presidency to Donald Trump, but the fight against climate change has reached a point of no return and Trump has shown little interest in turning that back. The...

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Anti-LGBT rhetoric perpetuates partisanship

Alden Marshall November 2, 2016

It’s finally November, and a grueling national campaign cycle is coming to an end. 2016 has been all the rage, but for Texas’ top officials, 2015 is rousing up feelings of nostalgia. After...

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Paxton should be held accountable for actions

Alden Marshall October 19, 2016

It’s a new week in Texas and Republicans are letting us down again -- if you can even consider the fringe, Tea Party Attorney General Ken Paxton as part of that motley crew. After a grand jury...

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Clean coal provides little to fight climate change

Alden Marshall October 5, 2016

Republicans seem to be experiencing trouble on how to spin their climate change denial. Ohio Gov. John Kasich debuted a new line of attack on climate change at the Texas Tribune Festival in late September,...

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Snowden deserves recognition, not pardon

Alden Marshall September 21, 2016

Over three years after leaking classified government documents and fleeing to Russia, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has ramped up his PR campaign for a presidential pardon in the final months of...

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Sanders’ legacy carries on best through Clinton’s campaign

Alden Marshall September 7, 2016

After a hard-fought primary campaign against Hillary Clinton that clenched 1,893 delegates and rustled the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders has turned into, at best, a tepid Hillary campaign surrogate....

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