Your correspondent hasn’t been writing on Grits during the latest special session because it wasn’t a time when Texas state leaders were willing to listen to reasoned argument, and this humble opuscule has little else to offer. As I wrote after the regular session ended, it’s important to be clearContinue Reading
The following is a guest blog post co-authored by Elizabeth Rossi of Civil Rights Corps and Amanda Woog of the Texas Fair Defense Project. Their organizations are among the civil rights groups involved in bail litigation against Harris County. Related: this discussion of the District Attorney’s claims to be fightingContinue Reading
For decades, Republican lawmakers have sought to deny benefits to people experiencing poverty unless they can prove they are either working or actively looking for work. Now those efforts have been ramped into overdrive., Read MoreContinue Reading
According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, we’ll pass the debt ceiling deadline on June 1. Once the United States stops paying its bills and is in default, economic calamity will ensue. Yes, something must be done to avoid cratering stock and financial markets and certain recession., Read MoreContinue Reading
A visual breakdown., Read MoreContinue Reading
There’s nothing ‘green’ about the deluge of pesticides—and endless rivers of water—we use to keep our yards uniformly verdant., Read MoreContinue Reading
As Uruguayans commemorate the disappeared in their annual March of Silence, political pressure mounts to account for the atrocities of Operation Condor., Read MoreContinue Reading
A look at the first comprehensive, book-length scholarly analysis of the anti-war movement that opposed the U.S. war in Iraq., Read MoreContinue Reading
A high profile new graphic novel asks the question, ‘What if the attack on the U.S. Capitol succeeded?’, Read MoreContinue Reading
A new collection highlights the anti-Vietnam War writings of historian Staughton Lynd, who was essentially blacklisted for his peace activism., Read MoreContinue Reading
A panel of experts weighs in., Read MoreContinue Reading
Eight years of policy have left generations of damage., Read MoreContinue Reading
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg issued a 56-page report disputing the findings of federal bail monitors overseeing the settlement agreement between plaintiffs and the county. Her arguments are so disingenuous, it’s a bit tiresome to go through them for rebuttal. But since the Houston Chronicle editorial board recently anointedContinue Reading