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The truest conservatism is based in the land | Opinion

Walter Miller, the youngest of the four Miller brothers, welcomed more than 400 of the family's closest friends to celebrate the 100th anniversary of...

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Joe Holley

The unlikely story of a Texas genius who helped end segregation | Opinion

The Sterling Law Building photographed on October 2, 2018 houses the Yale Law School in New Haven. On a sunny New England afternoon eons ago, I sat in...

23.11.2025 9

Joe Holley

How Texas cowboy conservatives took over the America | Opinion

An idle pumpjack in West Texas. Until I talked to political historian Jeff Roche by phone a few days ago, I thought I might be writing this column...

02.11.2025 4

Joe Holley

We’re UT, not TU. Just say no to Trump's ultimatum. | Opinion

Aerial view of the University of Texas campus including the UT Tower as seen on Sunday April 23, 2017. Behold the Texas longhorn: tough, irascible,...

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Why can't Texas Republicans unite us like Utah Gov. Spencer Cox? | Opinion

A couple of years ago, listening to the radio as I drove from Austin to La Grange, I heard on the news the latest version of a story I’ve been...

27.09.2025 9

Joe Holley

Are the Texas A&M Aggies afraid of academic freedom? | Opinion

Texas A&M president Mark Welsh III fired an English professor because a student objected to comments she made related to gender identity. Texas A&M...

18.09.2025 10

Joe Holley

There's a better way to redistrict. A Republican nearly got it done. | Opinion

File photo shows state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, debating in favor of his version of a congressional redistricting map, left, during the...

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Why the Texas Democrats' quorum break wasn't a failure | Opinion

Democratic Texas Rep. Gene Wu is silhouetted by the setting sun as he boards a bus following a press conference with other Texas House Democrats and...

16.08.2025 20

Joe Holley

While Texas preps for kickoff, Republicans rig the field | Opinion

AUSTIN – While politicians and political junkies watch Texas lawmakers plod through a Donald Trump-inspired special legislative session, the...

06.08.2025 6

Joe Holley

Texas wasn't ready for flooding. Now Virginia Hollis is dead. | Opinion

When the hearse carrying Virginia Hollis' body arrived at her home in Bellville on July 16, it was followed by Virginia's horse, Salt Lick, and her...

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