A man resigned from his job last week, and the reason he gave should be read slowly. Jacob Coxon spent three years doing research at two of the companies building the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world. When he…
Ken Paxton’s $27 million a day silence
Begin with the number, because the number is the whole story. Texas hospitals are losing an estimated $27 million a day. On the first of September, the federal government withheld approval of roughly $10 billion owed to Texas hospitals for…
Wolves in whose clothing?
There is a document with the seal of the United States government on it, and it teaches that a category of children does not exist. It is called “Wolves in White Coats.” The Department of Health and Human Services released…
In Texas, this math doesn’t add up to gospel
For most of my life I knew a truth about myself that I could not say out loud. I carried a badge in a Texas town. I raised children. I have been married to the same person for 46 years….
When silence breeds fear
Every one of us has stood in a room where the truth needed saying and said nothing. We told ourselves it was not our place. We told ourselves someone else would speak. We studied our own shoes while another person…
How one manufactured story becomes a belief about millions
On June 23, the president of the United States stood in a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pa., to give a speech about American manufacturing. Somewhere in the middle of this speech, he purposely manufactured a person. It went like…
Why transgender people threaten some and what that says about us all
Living in Texas as a transgender woman sometimes feels like walking through your own neighborhood with three heads. People stare. People whisper. People make decisions about who and what you are before you have said a single word — decisions…