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As the national conversation around climate crisis, gun violence, and police brutality creates a new call for a lower voting age, how did the voting age come to be lowered to 18? What impact did that have on national politics and how could the voting age be lowered again?

LLano County Commissioners are set to vote on Thursday to shut down it's library system in order to avoid obeying a federal judge's order to return banned books to the shelves. This is just one of many attacks on public libraries happening across Texas and the nation.

Humanity is on the doorstep of one of the greatest advancements since the printing press. Artificial Intelligence is now available and as AI continues to develop, it will make our lives easier, safer, and more productive. But there are bias concerns about what happens if humanity loses control of an AI superintelligence?

A system called the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, prevented double-voting across state lines. It was considered the gold standard, but Texas and other Republican states are leaving the program after it was targeted by Right Wing conspiracy theories. What’s really behind the effort to dump ERIC?

Are you your job? Does your job define you? Many entangle their identities with their jobs. That’s not a good idea because jobs go away, and then where are you? Who are you without that defining occupation? Why has work come to dominate the lives of so many?What does it take to make work a part of a healthy balanced life?

How the Texas legislature dealt with voting rights (it's not all bad news), and a stripper takes on San Antonio's anti-nudity ordinance.

A requirement to put the Ten Commandments in Texas classroom is on track to become law. Experts say this is a clear violation of the separation of church and state which is a foundational principle for America. Lt Governor Dan Patrick says this will make students better Texans.

Family members of a woman who changed modern medicine — without her knowledge and certainly without her permission — spoke at a gathering of scientists in San Antonio recently about ethics and equity in science and medicine.

The vast majority of children in foster care are there because they experienced neglect. Too often, neglect is a proxy for poverty and stressed families torn apart. For families—especially low-income families and families of color—becoming involved with the child welfare system is both traumatic and counter productive. What can be done to create a foster case system that works.

The Texas Newsroom podcast Sugar Land explores the history of the injustice of convict leasing in Texas and the controversy that erupted when 95 unmarked graves of inmates were discovered in Sugar Land.