The unarmed immigrant ICE officers shot in the back while he was driving for DoorDash in Texas last week now has been charged criminally with assaulting, resisting, interfering and impeding a federal officer. His immigration attorney says the Trump administration…
There is no them
Warning: Politics, religion and beagles ahead. Author’s note: Three years ago this week, on a Sunday morning, I set down these words in a downtown Austin hotel after a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. This…
Why vote to fund something you won’t ever use?
Last fall, my hometown of Austin, Texas, put a monumental public transportation bond question on the ballot: light rail, tunnels underneath downtown, electric buses. Austin’s Capitol Metro called the plan “bold.” Another way to say that: “Billions.” Austin voters have…