Most Texans are good neighbors to Muslims, but far-right Republicans in the state are making life difficult for them, three speakers said at the Texas Tribune Festival Sept. 24. The panelists — Fahad Ahmed, an Irving City Council member; Mohammed…
Talarico pledges support for church-state separation
“I will always stand up for the separation of church and state,” James Talarico told a standing-room-only crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival Sept. 24 in Austin, Texas. Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate from Texas…
‘It’s time for America and Congress to wake up’
It’s time for America to wake up and for Congress to wake up to the devastation being wrought by the Trump administration, Skye Perryman told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov 14. Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, was among four panelists…
Look to a different future, Buttigieg advises
Things in the United States are even worse than they appear, and the hope is not in rebuilding the systems that have been destroyed by Donald Trump, Pete Buttigieg told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov. 14. The former U.S. secretary…
‘You can’t fully appreciate how little he knew,’ Bolton says of Trump
President Donald Trump is a danger to the world because he doesn’t listen and doesn’t know what he thinks he knows, John Bolton told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov. 13. Bolton, former U.S. national security advisor and former U.S. ambassador…
Panelists offer three takes on state of religious liberty today
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is unconstitutional and opened the door to the death of religious liberty in America, political science professor Marci Hamilton told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov. 13. Hamilton, a lawyer with extensive experience in religious liberty…