Bad Takes

During a recent installment of his show, Joe Rogan permitted Robert Kennedy's busted sewer main's-worth of hazardous falsehoods to gush out, un-fact-checked.

Deaths due to extreme heat in the Lone Star State reached a two-decade high last year, with pets and people keeling over by the hundreds.

Ours is plainly neither a culture that prioritizes mercy, nor one that treats violence as a last resort.

Some 250,000 migrant children have arrived in our country unaccompanied, and thousands have been exploited in grueling jobs.

Even though 301 Starbucks stores won their union elections, they've so far achieved zero union contracts to show for it, thanks to the company's brazen obstruction.

To stoke fear among voters, San Antonio's powerful police union is mischaracterizing what the Justice Charter actually would do.

There are no private schools in a majority of Texas counties, so where exactly does Abbott's much-touted 'school choice' come in?

If it becomes illegal for drag queens to read to elementary school students at the public library, we are slouching toward theocracy.

Adams, the face of white fragility this month, represents millions of racists who have given up on Black people.

Abbott's purported 'Texas of Tomorrow' sounds an awful lot like a shameful Texas of the past.

This state — which lent its name to the most popular poker variant, Texas Hold 'Em — is leaving an awful lot of moola on the table by prohibiting gambling.

While natural gas is a cleaner energy source than coal, it's certainly not free of harmful pollution.

More than 9,000 titles, ranging from computer programming instruction to rock biographies, are banned in Texas prisons.

The noise about 'Hunter Biden's laptop' is obscuring a report from the Texas government on a real world tragedy: the hundreds of mothers in this state who have died during or after childbirth over the past decade.

Christian conservatives dogmatically repeat that 'Christ is King,' but somehow, the God of the Market still gets the last word.

While all eyes were on Elon Musk setting fire to Twitter, another billionaire spent his spare time suing to stop Biden's modest student debt forgiveness.

Nationally, Republicans spent a flabbergasting $157 million on crime-related political ads, analysis firm AdImpact found.

The consequences of the MAGA reality distortion field are deadly serious — especially if we want to remain a functioning democracy.

KTSA talk jock Jack Riccardi's defense of U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker truly takes the cake.

The high property and regressive sales taxes Texans fork over mean that all but the luckiest of us pay a higher effective tax rate than Californians do.