American Realignment
A Roundtable on Faith, Liberty, and the Common Good
The lead · Politics
The party knows who leads it. Now it has to show what its majority is for.
A party convention can show who commands the room. It cannot answer the harder question: what does the party intend to do with power?
Read the full editionTexas · Electricity
Austin and San Antonio use electric revenue to support city services. Abbott wants customers to choose another retailer. The contradiction is that his plan would overrule the cities to give residents more choice.
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Demand is rising again. America needs gas, nuclear power, renewables, storage, transmission lines—and a lot less posturing about which one is morally pure.
Read this sectionBrownsville · Water
The city gave up authority over private land in return for as much as $220 million for water projects. Now the payments and the water have to arrive.
Read this sectionTexas · Education
Students cannot fully understand Lincoln, abolition, civil rights, or much of American literature if biblical references mean nothing to them. Schools can teach that without preaching.
Read this sectionThe world · Energy
American oil production cannot make a global crisis disappear. It can give the country more ways to handle one.
Read this sectionAmerican Aside
Breakfast at the VFW. Storytime at the library. Parish business, college volleyball, and live music. Most civic life looks like an ordinary Tuesday.
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