This week, Jim talks with Robert Vitalis, the author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about the reemergence of misconceptions and myths about oil and geopolitics in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Episode was […]

This week, Jim Henson talks with Lauren McGaughy of the Dallas Morning News to discuss the recent developments in the heated politics around gender affirmative care for transgender kids in Texas.

Jim and Josh discuss early results of the 2022 Texas Primaries and the likely upcoming attorney general runoff election.

Jim and Josh discuss the attempted GOP reboot of public education as an issue in Texas, with a look at recent UT/Texas Politics Project polling results on removing books from libraries, parental influence, and teaching about racism.

Jim Henson, Josh Blank, and Daron Shaw discuss the results of the just-released University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll.

In a new Second Reading Podcast, Jim Henson and Josh Blank take a close look Latino voting patterns in Texas  – and what common media narratives miss about the subject.

Jim talks with Harvey Kronberg of Quorum Report about the 2022 primary elections and the forces at work in Texas politics.

Jim Henson and Gromer Jeffers, Jr., of the Dallas Morning News discuss the Republican primary contest in Texas for Attorney General and other legislative and congressional primary races in the North Texas region.

Jim and Ross Ramsey of The Texas Tribune discuss the politics of voting laws, the implications of the lopsided balance of power between the two parties in Texas, and the prospects for political change.

Jim and Josh kick off the new year by taking a cut at the agendas likely to dominate Republican and Democrat midterm elections at the top of the ticket.