Architects of the anti-abortion restrictions struck down by the Supreme Court this week are about as concerned about women’s health as a Texas football throng is about head injuries between each whistle. They want their team to win. They want to march down the field to their goal of burying the foe in the turf.…
Texas didn’t need a federal court to know it couldn’t do this. Neither did Indiana, Alabama, or any states seeking to excuse themselves from what America has always done. We welcome refugees in life-or-death straits. “Oh, no, we don’t,” said those states. “Not if they’re Muslim.” Oh, yes, you do, if the…
“This is the year of jubilee/Send them angels down/The Lord has come to set us free.” The words of the Negro spiritual are celebratory, but the truth of them is in the title: “My Way’s Cloudy.” A long struggle was ahead. Many who sang it would never know freedom. Emancipation launched a…
You’ve got to give it to Southern Baptists. When they do implosions . . . Two, count ’em, two spectacular demolitions visited Baylor University mere days apart. First – boom, boom, boom – the 66-year-old pillars under stoic but still highly functional Floyd Casey Stadium took lethal injection by dynamite. And then.…