News jitters

Voters lose in redistricting game in the United States

There are two actions that are both anti-democratic and anti-Democratic that Texas Republican state lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott are doing in messing around with the lines of the...

Newsom has made it clear that rooftop solar is not a priority

The California Supreme Court just gave state officials a golden opportunity to revitalize the rooftop solar industry, helping millions of homes and businesses lower their electric bills and fight...

Domestic tranquility — A shared federal responsibility

When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may be able to see only what the institution has been, not what it must now become....

Resistance isn’t a real strategy for the Democrats

Clive Crook, Tribune News Service Nearly nine months after Donald Trump’s reelection, Democrats still can’t make sense of it. Only the faintest glimmers of a reset are visible. The...

Once again, politicians are choosing their voters

Maresa Strano, Tribune News Service Once again, politicians are trying to choose their voters to guarantee their own victories before the first ballot is cast. In the latest round...

The coming arms race on gerrymandering

“I just want to find 11,780 votes,” President Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a recorded phone call two months after Trump lost the 2020...

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Directionless

The politics of compromise and conviction

Scott Turner was a Texas House Representative, now serving in the Trump Administration as the Secretary of US Housing & Urban Development (HUD). In the Texas House, he talked...