Erica Grieder
Erica Grieder is a senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 2007 to 2012, she covered Texas as the southwest correspondent for the Economist, to which she still contributes. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Spectator, the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the New Republic. Her first book, Big, Hot, Cheap and Right, is being published by Public Affairs Books. She lives in Austin.
Stories
The senator's campaign to defund Obamacare is frustrating people on both sides of the aisle. That doesn't mean it's wrong.
Rick Perry’s legacy will rise and fall on the “Texas miracle.” Is it real? If so, should he get the credit?
With all the strange things that happened during Wendy Davis's filibuster, there's one point that has gone almost unnoticed.
A proposal to expand funding for transportation may face some snarls in the Texas House.
Central Texas was the first stop on President Obama's "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity" tour.
On Monday the Senate passed HB-5, which slashes the number of mandatory tests in Texas high schools, proposes a new way to rate districts, and restructures the high school diploma plans.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened today. Americans are still trying to figure out how we feel about that.
The latest data from the Texas Workforce Commission shows that the state actually lost jobs last month. About 4,100. The total employment numbers have changed 0.0 percent. But still!
After the deadliest industrial accident in American history, the people of Texas City were angry—at the government, not the company that caused the catastrophe
The latest edition of "Texas on the Brink" shows that for all of its success, Texas has plenty of room for improvement
On Thursday the Texas Senate passed SB2, which would expand the number of charter licenses in the state.
The announcement that Google Fiber is coming to Austin means more than just super-fast cat videos.
Whatever happens to the struggling agency, the fallout from the scandal will linger.