Houston Chronicle compares people crossing border to Mary and Joseph

Editorial board publishes opinion piece in response to hard-right Republican governor’s latest immigration crackdown A stinging Christmas opinion issued by the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle newspaper asks Texas’s hard-right Republican leader: “How would governor Greg Abbott treat Mary and Joseph at the border?” The leading media outlet in the Democratic-voting city published an … Read more

America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Congress

Not much has gone right on Capitol Hill this year.  America, it’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Congress in 2023.  And that’s before getting to former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.  We knew that 2023 would be a mortifying year on Capitol Hill from the moment the First Session of the 118th Congress … Read more

Mosab Abu Toha’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza

Following Hamas’s October 7th attack and Israel’s invasion, Mosab Abu Toha fled his home with his wife and three children. Then I.D.F. soldiers took him into custody.