Commentary
Y’All Answered: Target the Cartel Leadership?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Two Years Later: A Prosper ISD Mom’s Story
Eileen Riverside won’t let school board trustees get away with the notion that “no one is at fault” in the now two-year-old sex abuse scandal and cover-up.
Identity Politics Has Destroyed the Bonds of American Society
Urgent action is necessary now!
Y’All Answered: Abolish Austin?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Greer: Thank Goodness Media Hacks and Grocers Don’t Run Elections
Here’s one way to think about who wants a secure, trustworthy election and who doesn’t. Are they working to fix deficiencies in election administration, removing doubt about results, or are they making the faulty case that safeguards to ensure accuracy and legal...
Sanders: Want Your Freedoms Back? Here’s How to Do It!
We are living in unprecedented times. Not because of the Chinese coronavirus—viruses come and go, and they will be with us forever. No, we are living in unprecedented times because never before in our State’s history has there been such executive branch overreach and...
Meaningful Work
I don’t think I have ever urgently needed someone with a Ph.D. Yet in the cultural economy of the 21st century, we celebrate the pursuit of even meaningless degrees, and dismiss critical professions once known as the trades. The cultural elite would have us believe it...
Blain: Reform, Not Defunding
Protests have spread across the United States for months now, along with calls for defunding local police departments. But the movement to defund police has a crucial flaw: the policy that it seeks would harm the minority communities whom the protesters claim to care...
Bovard: Ordinary Americans Make a Positive, Optimistic Case for Trump and America
Coming off a week where the Democrat National Convention spent four days painting the Trump administration as an apocalyptically dark, existential threat to the country, the Republican National Committee used their moment to let their voters speak for them—and it...
Greer: Harris County’s Unlawful Election Proposals
This week, Harris County commissioners, at the behest of interim County Clerk Chris Hollins, green-lit spending a whopping $17 million on a slew of last-minute alterations to how the county will handle this year’s election. Harris, like other Democrat-controlled...
Test Everything… Abstain from Evil
As citizens, we have tolerated the devolution of our republic into cults of personality. Rather than a spirited contest of ideas among a self-governing people, elections have become a spectator sport complete with pompoms, jerseys, and cheerleaders. The result? We’re...
Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘He’s Hurting Texas’
Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s shutdowns in response to the Chinese coronavirus, a Central Texan still caught the virus in a nursing home and later died of a heart attack. Now, the same mandates that failed to protect him are keeping his widow separated from her daughter...
Magness: Environmentalists Oppose Pipeline Development but Offer No Viable ‘Plan B’
Recent news of regulatory obstacles and lengthy courtroom challenges against energy infrastructure projects like the Atlantic Coast, Keystone XL, and Dakota Access pipelines have jolted the industry and spotlighted the need for regulatory consistency and clear...