I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.