Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

A new anthology captures federal resignation letters from 2025.

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Lark and Owl is not just a neighborhood bookstore; it’s a space of connection and community.

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

On this Juneteenth, NPR is marking the day in 1865 when Union forces arrived in Texas with the news that slavery had been abolished two years earlier with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Scott, Dave and I founded LGM on May 31, 2004 towards the end of the Early Days of the blogosphere. The site rapidly found a small but non-trivial audience, and became a small part of the bigger blogo...

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.

An email from a Republican SBOE member highlighted questions over the relationship between the State Board of Education and Legislature.

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Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...

Schools globally have outsourced their operational backbone. The Canvas hack just made what has long been an invisible dependency visible.

Hungarian Americans say Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary provides a blueprint for countering President Trump's attempts to tilt the electoral playing field ahead of the midterms.

Lessons from Hungary for pro-democracy movements worldwide.