By Kate McGee Texas Tribune As supporters of then-President Donald Trump surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Central Texas highway last year, San Marcos police officials and 911 dispatchers fielded multiple requests for assistance from Democratic campaigners and bus passengers who ...

by Lara Korte, Texas Tribune The Trump administration is proposing tightened requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – also known as food stamps – that could end food assistance for more than 3 million Americans and jeopardize assistance for thousands of Texans. The pro...

I s the bulging field of Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential nomination a sign of strength? Or is it a troubling indication that wresting the presidency from Donald Trump won’t be as easy as it ought to be? At last count there were 23 “major” candidates including seven senators, four members of ...

B oy, is our political discourse going to the dogs. The Washington Post reports Donald Trump is the first U.S. president in 100-plus years not to have a dog – though others, including Ronald Reagan, didn’t have dogs until their second terms. During a February rally, reports The Post , Trump said “he...

You didn’t expect a pre-test, but: Which presidential candidate coined the term “rigged economy”? (A) Bernie Sanders; (B) Elizabeth Warren; (C) Jill Stein; (D) Donald Trump. Answer: D. OK, actual parentage may be in dispute. Patrick Henry might have uttered the phrase first. However, Trump – yes, hi...

T here were lots of accusations flying and a lot of name-calling last week when President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer-in-chief Michael Cohen testified before the Congress House Oversight Committee. Cohen called Trump a liar. He said Trump was deeply involved in hush payments to cover-up...

D onald Trump was having a horrible month. Then Howard Schultz gave him a chance to flex his inner Biff. Trump hopes, hopes, hopes Schultz runs for president. And so President Biff did what his role model, the ruling oaf in “Back to the Future,” did to Marty McFly: called him chicken. Schultz, the f...

R oger Stone’s lineage is like the circulatory system of political corruption in America. Like a Mafia family tree. The man with a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back was one of the baby Dirty Tricksters behind the varied activities that got Nixon booted from the White House. He was close withs side...

Re naming federal departments is nothing new. The Defense Department was the War Department. The State Department was Foreign Affairs. In 2016 the nation’s steward of public lands became the Department of the Inferior. And with it the Environmental Pillaging Agency. Take bad science, add ethically m...

A s the government shutdown now moves into its third week – the longest U.S. government shutdown in history – the effects are being felt locally. Anyone traveling can expect long airport lines. While Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are supposed to show up at work, they are doi...