Category: Op-ed
The Gas Pump is No Place for a Child to Play: The case for replacing 12th grade with universal Pre-K
This piece is the first prize winner of the 2019 Baines Report Op-Ed Contest. _ It’s the autumn of...
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The silent victims of “zero tolerance” immigration policies
This piece won second place in the 2019 Baines Report Op-Ed Contest. _ Immigrant children with...
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House Bill 10 Reports on Mental Health Parity
“Now that a precedent has been given national media attention, Texans have greater incentive to be more vigilant when it comes to their rights as patients.”
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Reducing Difficult-to-Eliminate Emissions Is No Easy Task
As of 2018, over one hundred municipalities in the United States have committed to using 100%...
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One year after the Parkland, FL school shooting, reforms are still unfinished.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which...
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Changing a system of segregation requires more than single-member districts
Minority underrepresentation on Texas school boards is failing thousands of school children each...
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She may be radical, but AOC has not gone far enough on taxes
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a lightning rod for news coverage. She was recently...
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This immigrant Muslim woman says: please don’t unfriend your annoying Republican uncle
On November 9, 2016, I woke up to a bewildering array of text messages. There were the many...
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Khashoggi Killing Adds New Dimension to Yemen War- and New Opportunity for United States
Seventy years ago today, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights that...
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Op-ed: Rexposé
The Cockrell School has said in a statement that its new distinguished lecture series “aims to...
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To Fund Infrastructure, Tax Carbon Emissions
If the midterm elections result in a so-called blue wave, Democrats could lead the push in...
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Young, Scrappy, Hungry, and Waiting: The Case for Reforming Security Clearances
Last December, I was offered my dream internship – working with the U.S. Department of State –...
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