You can bank on this: the right’s war on contraception is about to become another front — along with attacks on evolution and evidence on climate change — in the broader war on science. For years religious-right groups have insisted that pharmacists who oppose abortion should have the right to refuse to dispense emergency contraception […]
Recent Blogs
How Extreme Will the Texas GOP Platform Be This Year?
Both the Democratic and Republican parties of Texas will meet in convention this week. Ever since the religious right’s takeover of the Texas Republican Party in the 1990s, the state GOP platform has been almost a manifesto for extremism. The 2010 platform, for example, calls separation of church and state a “myth”; insists on abstinence-only […]
Textbooks, Sex and How Texas Has Hijacked Public Policy in America
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has a new book coming, As Texas Goes…, which looks at how right-wing politics and other shenanigans in Texas have hijacked public policy across the country. You can read two extended excerpts from Collins book (due out this month): one on the textbook wars here and another on sex […]
The Week in Quotes (May 27 – June 2)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Two Right-Wing Texas Legislators Went Down to Defeat This Week
Tuesday’s Republican Primary elections in Texas brought the defeat of one prominent member of the far-right faction on the State Board of Education — Gail Lowe, R-Lampasas. But two other Texas politicians prominent on the far right also appear to have been too extreme even for GOP voters. One was state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, […]
