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Greg Abbott Loves Small Government—Until He Doesn’t Like What People Do With It
In recent years, Texas has experienced something of an ideological crisis. The principles espoused by our leaders speak to small government and maximum liberty, but our statewide officeholders are...
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Texas Without Syrian and Lebanese Refugees Would Not Be Texas
Governor Greg Abbott insists he has the power to bar Syrian refugees from settling in Texas. While that contention is debatable—as is the legality of his threat to cut funding to non-profit faith-based...
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Right Aid
One October evening a few years ago, I was driving through the Hill Country on my way to report a story in San Angelo. Twilight was encroaching when I steered around a blind curve and, to my horror,...
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Lost and Found
The wind is what struck Dim Niang in those first days—a constant dry wind that knew no boundaries, wind that could lift a stretch of road dust and seem to cast it up to Oklahoma, New Mexico, and...
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If downtown Austin smelled like barbecue on October 30, you have the TMBBQ Fest to thank. Joints from locales as far-flung as Amarillo and Paris, France (yes, France), served up the best brisket, ribs,...
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Welcoming the Stranger: Faces of the Refugee Crisis
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Greg Abbott’s Rejection of Refugees is Baffling—and Boneheaded
Is there a complicated German word for the feeling of disappointment in a person for whom your expectations were so low that you didn’t know you could still feel disappointed in them? That’s the way a...
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This Family Survived an African Refugee Camp. Their New Challenge: Surviving...
Until January, Merci Madilu and his older brother, Espoir, had spent most of their existence in a refugee camp in the landlocked Central African nation of Burundi, where they shared a one-room,...
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A Refugee’s First Day in Texas
Austin, April 2007 Mu Naw stood on the landing above the airport baggage claim area at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and wished she had on different shoes. She shifted the plastic...
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When Tekle Met Maggie: An Eritrean Refugee and a Rising Pop Star Share ACL...
Tekle Mezghebe stood onstage at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in downtown Austin and looked out over a sea of screaming young Americans. It was Sunday evening and the crowd was there to see pop star...
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