August 6, 2026
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  • With 24/7 news, are voters more informed?

    Despite the fact that some of what passes for news is actually opinion, a dizzying amount of news is available to access all day, any time and from anywhere. So why aren’t we more informed?

  • Who would believe that Obama is Muslim?

    Politics is an ugly business. It would be difficult enough if politicians focused just on the difficult issues that are required to participate in government. It is made harder by the fact that politicians are routinely the target of personal attacks. Often, the attacks in these ads are not even true.

  • On citizenship and naturalization

    In this seventh installment of the “Border Views” video series, John Sibley Butler, a professor of management and sociology, discusses immigrants’ history of self-employment in the U.S., Americans’ views on immigrant entrepreneurship and his views on citizenship and naturalization.

  • Immigrants’ history of self-employment in the United States

    In this seventh installment of the “Border Views” video series, John Sibley Butler, a management and sociology professor, discusses immigrants’ history of self-employment in the U.S., Americans’ views on immigrant entrepreneurship and his views on citizenship and naturalization.

  • Why Americans don’t celebrate or discuss immigrant entrepreneurship

    In this seventh installment of the “Border Views” video series, John Sibley Butler, a management and sociology professor, discusses immigrants’ history of self-employment in the U.S., Americans’ views on immigrant entrepreneurship and his views on citizenship and naturalization.

  • Gauging the mood of the voters

    How are the voters doing this mid-term season? It’s a question not often asked, but it is worth raising because intentionally or not, voters create most of the incentives that influence the candidates and the news media. Here are some examples of how incentives are working in 2010.

  • Dueling interviews in the governor’s race

    This Friday, the Texas Tribune, KUT and KLRU will collaborate to stage and webcast separate live interviews with Rick Perry and Bill White from The University of Texas at Austin campus. These interviews come in response to an impasse between the Perry and White campaigns. Warning: If you’re frustrated by politics, what follows isn’t going…

  • LBJ School Professor Awarded $100,000 Ford Foundation Grant for Sustainable Housing Research

    Peter Ward, the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for research on sustainable housing policy and policy development for self-help in the Texas colonias, residential…

  • Tsunami Risk Higher in Los Angeles, Other Major Cities

    Geologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul and Los Angeles.

  • The economy is the crux of November’s elections

    In the 1992 presidential election race the Clinton camp mocked President George H.W. Bush’s inability to understand his falling popularity with the memorable phrase “it’s the economy, stupid.” It is funny how history has a nasty way of repeating itself.

  • The uncooperative Democrats and their tax cuts disaster

    The Democrats blew it. With the plan to make the 2001 Bush tax cuts permanent for the middle class, they had a chance to change the narrative for the 2010 elections. But, alas, amid disunity in their own ranks, the Democrats retreated to their constituencies, promising to take up the issue after the election.

  • Economic policy as if people mattered

    When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem — the democracy deficit.

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