How to Vote
There is a certain irony in the fact that while the Texas Photo Voter ID law is under court challenge by Democrats and the...
Goodbye, Fossil Fuels?
“We would like to get to a prototype in five generations,” said Dr. Thomas McGuire, director of the Revolutionary Technology division at Lockheed...
Best Of People & Politics 2013
Thing Tarrant County Needs
Critic’s choice: Endowment fund for the Arts Council of Fort Worth
Two years of budget battle losses have left local arts groups...
Republicans, We Hardly Know Ye
I’m curious — what has happened to the Republican Party? After all, these are the people who like to tell Americans they are the...
Moving On
The first-ever female ticket for Texas governor and lieutenant governor — Democratic state Sens. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth and Leticia Van de Putte...
Less Fighting, More Fear
Imagine for a moment that all the wars of the world have come to a peaceful conclusion. Most violent crime against people and property...
Open-Armed, Despite All
What if China, flush with its new wealth, opened its doors to mass immigration? It would make sense from an economic and social point...
Apocalypse by Apathy
The elderly woman stood in her thin robe at the doorway of her modest bungalow, scratching the sores on her arm, a slight tremor...
Getting off the High Horse
After a tough day, you’re decompressing, shutting out the world, checking out the lightest of internet fare. You come across a video with a...
Goodhair Moves On
Over the 26 years he was Texas agriculture commissioner, John C. White developed a saying: At a political funeral, it’s better to be a...
