Congress is planning to throw more money at school “security” as part of the bipartisan gun deal.

Trump’s recent losses are heartening. But that doesn’t mean a post-Trump GOP will be good for America.

Now Republicans swear they’re going to address mental health. How dumb do they think the American people are?

Liberals can’t count on the courts to protect against Republican ambitions to roll back civil rights.

On the right, “grooming” is being teed up as the next CRT.

Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.

The Texas governor’s use of irregular military deployments to fearmonger at the border could be coming to a state near you.

The ex-congressman from Texas came fairly close to unseating Ted Cruz in 2018. Here’s how he thinks he could get over the line against Governor Greg Abbott.

Around the country, conservative parents are merging moral panics about critical race theory and queerness into one noxious package.

With a bill banning trans student athletes, Republicans are claiming to protect children in order to consolidate power. Where have we seen this before?

Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are giving Democrats an opening to retake the Covid-19 narrative and exploit a winning issue.

Major U.S. companies apparently don’t see Texas’s abortion ban as an economic threat.

Hideous as the Texas law is for women, it could be good for Democrats in 2022—anger is a much greater motivator than complacency.

From the way it entered the Union, right up through this week, the Lone Star State has been aggressively dragging the country backward.

Clinics across Texas are preparing to get sued and to have to send patients out of state.

Dan Rodimer and Chip Roy are just the latest carpetbaggers who have moved to the Lone Star State to capitalize on the GOP’s Trumpian turn.

The Texas senator doesn’t do his job even when he’s home because conservatives have given up on governing.

How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality.

The federal courts were once the last line of defense against voter suppression. Now, filled with Trump’s conservative appointees, they’re encouraging it.

James O’Keefe’s group is part of a sprawling campaign to delegitimize mail-in balloting in the fall—a campaign being led by the White House.