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Texans: You Are Your Legislators’ Boss, Now Act Like It
‘That big pink building in Austin is as much yours as it is Matt Krause’s, or anyone else’s.’ Patrick Michels Every other year, Texas lawmakers hoof it down to the state Capitol to spend 140 days...
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Guys Get Off Free with Tinderholt’s Abortion Ban
State Representative Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington. www.house.state.tx.us A state representative from Arlington has filed a bill he’s calling the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act, but a better name...
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Seize the Trumpportunity! President Offers Both Parties Chance to Reinvent...
Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Austin on August 23, 2016. Patrick Michels I remember the first time I wrote a letter to John Cornyn, probably 10 years ago. The issue was abortion, and I asked the...
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Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion...
Handmaids wait to enter the Senate Chamber. Ignacio Martinez In white bonnets and bright-red robes, they sit silently in protest as lawmakers usher in yet another bill that will make it harder for...
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The Laugh Ceiling: A New Book on Women Comics Misses the Show
My reward, earlier this year, for convincing myself it would be worthwhile to find some stage time at a stand-up comedy open mic in San Francisco, was a beer that came courtesy of a sympathetic...
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A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly...
Nearly four decades after she penned it, Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing has just been reissued by the University of Texas Press, and it’s as timely as ever. That’s the problem. The book...
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Brett Kavanaugh and the Terrifying Logic of the Boys’ Club
Brett Kavanaugh and the Terrifying Logic of the Boys’ Club Justice is about diffusing power; sexual assault reinforces and consolidates it. – by Andrea Grimes September 24, 2018 Who among us has not...
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‘Last Woman Standing’ Tackles Toxic Masculinity and Keeps the Pages Turning
Ask any member of the local comedy scene, and they might tell you they’re surprised it’s taken so long for the annual Funniest Person in Austin stand-up contest to set the stage for the police...
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From the May/June 2021 issue. “This is like the Hunger Games!” some version of this exclamation, often peppered with curse words and red-faced anger emojis, was a common refrain in a now-defunct...
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Opinion: From ‘Friendly’ State to Enmity State
In early July, I found myself trucking down Interstate 35 in an aging Ford with our dippy, big-eared hound dog in the extended cab. Months ago, my husband and I had bought our ’95 F-150 with the aim of...
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