Bad Takes

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Gov. Greg Abbott has wasted billions on Operation Lone Star, his constitutionally dubious effort to make the lives of migrants a living hell.

Beware of people, even popular podcasters, who downplay a virus that's the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.

As local leaders point fingers about the cause of the shootings, we should take a serious look at Texas' lax firearms laws.

This book-ratings regime has little to do with protecting schoolchildren from sexual trauma and predation.

Fans of Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' defend it as an endorsement of 'law and order.' But aren't there constitutional protections afforded to symbolic speech?

Upwards of 20,000 adult deaths in the U.S. from 2008 to 2017 were linked to extreme heat.

During a recent installment of his show, Joe Rogan permitted Robert Kennedy's busted sewer main's-worth of hazardous falsehoods to gush out, un-fact-checked.

Deaths due to extreme heat in the Lone Star State reached a two-decade high last year, with pets and people keeling over by the hundreds.

Ours is plainly neither a culture that prioritizes mercy, nor one that treats violence as a last resort.

Some 250,000 migrant children have arrived in our country unaccompanied, and thousands have been exploited in grueling jobs.

Even though 301 Starbucks stores won their union elections, they've so far achieved zero union contracts to show for it, thanks to the company's brazen obstruction.

To stoke fear among voters, San Antonio's powerful police union is mischaracterizing what the Justice Charter actually would do.

There are no private schools in a majority of Texas counties, so where exactly does Abbott's much-touted 'school choice' come in?

If it becomes illegal for drag queens to read to elementary school students at the public library, we are slouching toward theocracy.

Adams, the face of white fragility this month, represents millions of racists who have given up on Black people.

Abbott's purported 'Texas of Tomorrow' sounds an awful lot like a shameful Texas of the past.

This state — which lent its name to the most popular poker variant, Texas Hold 'Em — is leaving an awful lot of moola on the table by prohibiting gambling.

While natural gas is a cleaner energy source than coal, it's certainly not free of harmful pollution.

More than 9,000 titles, ranging from computer programming instruction to rock biographies, are banned in Texas prisons.