Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Coming off a tsunami election in Texas and across the country, the smoke is just beginning to clear, but as of today, here’s who made the list: WINNER: American Democracy Despite the fact...
Who determines whether a drug is covered by insurance? Or if a drug is a “specialty drug”? Who puts the price on drugs? You might think it would be the drug manufacturers or pharmacies that determine these things. However, another entity has overstepped and is making a profit off of the system while patients are...
Albert Einstein observed that “politics is a pendulum.” It’s hard to imagine, but every state can — and likely will — be flipped at some point in your lifetime. On Tuesday, it happened in long-time conservative strongholds like South Carolina, Kansas, and yes… Texas. I was not naive enough to believe this day would never...
Texas “now controls what professors can teach.” So screams the latest edition of The Atlantic. In reality, its complaint that Texas has begun to police what its public universities may teach mistakes the recovery of reason for the suppression of it. It somehow sees in the state’s modest restraints on race and sex ideology a...
Who better to counsel us on freedom than the country that gave us the Reign of Terror? A few weeks back, French president Emmanuel Macron declared that “the so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Freedom, he continued, exists only where “there is a limit to...
MORENA demands sovereign restraint from Washington while expecting freedom to pursue its own political interests inside the U.S. By Alejandrina Elms Sovereignty has become the Mexican government’s favorite word in its relationship with Washington, D.C. Mexico invokes it in response to American criticism, security cooperation, and almost any suggestion that its domestic affairs might invite...
It is plainly obvious, only now of course, that everything isn’t what it appears to be with Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan. Which Dan Sullivan, you may ask? There are two of them on the ballot: the incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan and the so-called “independent” candidate Dan J. Sullivan Jr. The initial temptation...
Every spring, over 800,000 Texas students receive their university decision letters—a few paragraphs in the fanciest envelope they have ever received—informing them whether or not they were accepted into their dream college. But for many students in Texas, the dream to attend one of the state’s flagship universities will not come true, not because the...
Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Today is the last day of Early Voting, so we are now beginning the endgame. So far, 6.2 million Texans had cast their ballots as of Wednesday and the GOP deficit has dwindled...
Imagine that the federal government prohibits you from exercising a constitutional right. Your neighbor challenges the prohibition and wins; a federal court holds that the government may not enforce it. Now imagine that you want to engage in the very same conduct as your neighbor, inside the same judicial district where the government’s prohibition was...
Before the Islamic Republic of Iran came for the press; before it came for the universities, before it came for anyone who disagreed with it in public, it came for women. That is not a detail of the story. It is the story. I was 10 years old when it happened to me, and I...
Kayleigh Kozak was 12 years old when her soccer coach sexually abused her for more than two years. He served just nine months in jail and was placed on lifetime probation. Nearly two decades later, Kayleigh was forced to confront her abuser again when he sought to end his probation early — potentially eliminating the...