Democratic debate: The biggest winner was clear from the stage
The biggest winner from Thursday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in Houston may have been the diversity of the candidates.
Read more‘Texodus’: Why the Lone Star State might turn blue for real this time
At the Monitor Breakfast, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz predicted Texas will be “hotly contested” in 2020, thanks to the growing clout of suburban voters – particularly women – who have been moving to the left, politically.
Read moreFort Worth asks, Can a klan hall become a place of healing?
When it comes to relics of hate, what is the best way forward? In Fort Worth, Texas, a group wants to use an old Ku Klux Klan hall to honor victims of racial violence and promote healing. Others say, tear it down.
Read moreWhen DA doesn’t consider an officer reliable, should public know?
How do you best maintain public faith in the U.S. justice system? More prosecutors are publicizing do-not-call lists of officers whose testimony they consider tainted, raising questions about due process.
Read moreWhen it comes to opioid crisis, what does justice look like?
What would represent justice in the opioid crisis? This week, a ruling and a settlement offer suggest paths forward, but can litigation alone offer a solution?
Read moreWhy El Paso is determined not to roll up the welcome mat
El Paso is an old city with a big heart, residents told our reporter. Its embrace of all isn’t going anywhere, they say, despite a terrorist attack aimed at its diversity.
Read moreThe ‘original extreme sport’: For cowboys, Christmas comes in July
Rodeo events descend from traditional ranching duties like breaking horses and roping sick calves, but as the number of family ranches has declined and urbanization has increased, there are concerns that rodeo could soon join the Old West and small family ranches as a relic of the past.
Read moreTexas pediatrician on border crisis: ‘Kids don’t go in cages’
Over a 13-year career as a pediatrician in Texas, Dr. Marsha Griffin has visited every government facility that could hold newly arrived migrant children in the Rio Grande Valley. She sat down with the Monitor in early July to discuss what she has been seeing and how she thinks the government could be taking better care of the migrant children in its custody.
Read moreThis writer’s job: Get young people to see poetry everywhere
Who are the cultivators of contemplation in U.S. society? One of them is Naomi Shihab Nye, the latest young people’s poet laureate. She encourages slowing down as a way to see the extraordinary in every life.
Read moreIn the shadows: Supreme Court’s offstage moves may matter more
Sometimes, the decisions made on the “shadow docket” of the Supreme Court may wind up having more significance.
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