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Waking up in a no-longer-red state
Here in Texas, Republican dominance just collapsed in an evening. The state was also the site of some earlier signs of the national blue wave to come.
Cultivating literary Dallas
“It was not enough to publish books,” says Deep Vellum founder Will Evans. “We needed a place to invite people in, to put literature at the core of the cultural community.”
An anti-Christian lawsuit
When Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit against a Catholic volunteer organization in El Paso, he went against his own church’s statement of faith.
Why do we teach history?
Behind the curriculum debates lurks a deeper question about what it means to form citizens.
Whose religious freedom is at stake with Texas’s new abortion law?
Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.