Anti-Defamation League

UPDATED: Hard-Right Group Wants to Push Broad Religious Exemptions into State Constitution

When Texas first passed its Religious Freedom Act in 1999, Scott Hochberg, then a Democratic State Representative, found a strange ally. Texas Right to Life, a pro-life organization still extant, had consistently stood opposite Hochberg's legislation never testified for Hochberg's legislation -- the ... More >>

(UPDATED) Burn the Lies: CNN Calls Hatebreed a "White Power" Act

If you would have told me 15 years ago that CNN and Hatebreed would be butting heads, I wouldn't have believed you, but that's where we are in 2012. This week, in the wake of Sunday's tragic Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, news outlets reported that gunman, Wade Michael Page, a 40-ye ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

[¡Ask a Mexican!!] And why do they love scratch-off Lotto tickets?

Mistaken Identities

Being a Sikh means you get called a terrorist because your hair is bound up in a turban on your head. Now imagine being a Sikh teenager in Texas, where if you follow your faith you'll never blend in.

Whole Foods: "We Should Not Highlight Ramadan"

No "Ramadan Mubarak" wishes this year from Whole Foods.​Under pressure from right-wing bloggers who blindly associate Ramadan and Muslims with terrorism and burqas, Whole Foods has sent an email to its stores across the United States in which it specifically tells stores not to promote Ramadan ... More >>

The Wheel World

Readers share their bike messenger stories.

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Jersey Shore: Exile In Guidoville

​MTV has a great deal to answer for -- reducing our attention span to half-second jump cuts and paving the way for American Idol for starters -- but the network still erroneously referred to as Music Television might have finally trumped itself in sheer loathsomeness with their latest foray into ... More >>

No Bitching This Time: Aeros Earn A Good-Guys Award

Photo courtesy AHLThe Aeros' Brandon Rogers, good guyIt seems like I usually use this forum to bitch and moan about sports.  So today I thought I would do something a little different. The Houston Aeros are being honored by the City and by the Anti-Defamation League this afternoon at City Hall, ... More >>

Quanell X

The Houston activist says he's dumped the hate

SPECIAL ONE-QUESTION EDICIÓN

Letters to the Editor

Don't Worry, Be Happy

HISD parents want information about possible changes in the GT/Vanguard program. The administration calls any fears baseless.

Love It, Fear It

A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

Parts Unknown

Did Donnie Riley kill Tarron Dixon, or was he shooting at someone else in a different Houston neighborhood that night 13 years ago?

What He Said

Houston's new top cop may bring his own language barrier

No Haters Here

OrchestraX plays for peace

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Fueling the Ire

Despite downpours and dwindling diesel, the Klan tries to mount a soggy comeback

A Split Decision

Jones High gets to keep Principal Lawrence Allen but loses its prestigious Vanguard program

Road Hog

Tick off these drivers and prepare to die, or at least to wake up to a gigantic mess in your front yard

Breaking Bigotry

Some schools won't hear of intolerance; others just don't want to listen

GOP Inc.

How "Scary" Gary Polland turned his party apparatus into a political slot machine

Keeping the Faith

Houston Jews and Christians favor peaceful coexistence

Calling Jews to Jesus

Southern Baptists go on a not-so-kosher search to convert Jews to Christ

The Insider

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Press Picks

Letters

Letters

The Sound and the Fury

Talk radio's Rob Thorn warns of the New World Order and impending apocalypse. The Texas Constitutional Militia is listening.

God, Guns & Kombucha

Is Steve Stockman a committed crackpot, or just a hapless goofball?

Candidate

With big bucks and blessings from on high, Eugene Fontenot comes out from behind his wall to buy a seat in Congress

Hotze In the Media Fun House

Rest easy: he doesn't want the state to kill gays