We should be in agony today—people are dying because they want to live in a democracy, want to determine their own affairs. But that agony should, and can, produce real change.
Analysis
Poetry Echoes ‘Tree Chop’ Resistance, Epithet after HDRC Pushes Back Vote
Award-winning San Antonio poet Kamala Platt reflects on efforts to clear away elder trees at Backenridge Park.
Winter Storm Survey: Unmet Physical and Emotional Needs a Year After Winter Storm Uri
Deceleration’s Winter Storm Survey shows the freezing blackout is a lingering specter. Only community-led solutions-making can exorcise it.
Plans to Fell Brackenridge Trees Rooted in City’s War on Birds
Plans to take down more than 100 trees at Brackenridge Park have been cast as being about historic structures. For Parks, it’s about something higher.
Messing with Texas: The Big Stories to Watch in 2022
Texas-based reporters, activists, and academics told us what they’re watching—or hope to be watching —in 2022.
Why I’m Making ‘The Bee Maker’ Available Free to Teachers
Ancient Greece, Vietnamese Buddhism, the biodiversity collapse, and Texas students being failed by the system helped inspire ‘The Bee Maker.’
City Council: Reject CPS Energy’s Proposed Rate Hike
On Thursday, City Council is expected to vote on a 3.85-percent increase in CPS Energy rate hike. Here’s why they need to vote no.
World’s Largest Polluter Getting $768,000,000,000 from U.S. Taxpayers
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional user of fossil fuels in the world, but cutting emissions isn’t a funding prereq.