Will Texas Be A Swing State In November? You Can Bet On It (Literally)
The odds aren't great, but according to booking sites they're there.
The odds aren't great, but according to booking sites they're there.
Mimi Swartz discovers the Texas she remembers in a small cafe in Cisco.
Choosing between Trump and Cruz might not be pleasant. But it’s definitely not hard.
Cruz and Rubio need to work together.
The sad, but triumphant post-rock band from Austin is the latest group to find their music in the hands of politicians.
The state’s junior senator has raised more from individual contributions than all the other major candidates combined.
Why Tuesday night's results were alarming.
Apparently no target is too trivial for the pertinacious presidential candidate.
Debating the impact of last night's primary results.
The Texas senator's victory wasn't hard to see coming.
Ten tips for figuring out the “wacko bird.”
With less than two weeks until the Iowa caucus, the knives are out.
The Great Texas Meltdown of 2015 started slowly. In fact, things were looking mighty good for perennial favorites the Dallas Cowboys when they made the playoffs last January, and they could have gone all the way if it hadn’t been for a controversial call by the refs that cost them
Readers respond to the December 2015 issue.
Ted Cruz’s bizarre effort to reframe his own record on "legalization."
Oh, what a time to be alive.
Tonight's Republican debate has high stakes for the Texas senator.
His headlines might not be as incendiary as Trump's, but Ted Cruz is still making a splash.
It’s time to come to terms with the idea that Ted Cruz could be the Republican nominee.
America’s short-term Trump problem will end in Iowa.
Marco Rubio confronts Ted Cruz with his own record.
The Texas senator showed some intellectual muscle at last night’s Republican debate.
Our junior senator is rising in the polls, but what is his real message?
Definitely one of the finer hip hop odes to Texas’s junior senator.
Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick put the past behind them.
George W. Bush raises a simple critique with complex implications.
Results from a straw poll of libertarian Republicans highlight the senator’s shrewdness.
We like the president less than the rest of the country, but the real showdown is over Blue Bell.
The candidate turns his focus to the “campaign conservatives.”
Three more examples of our elected leaders staying the crazy course.
Why Ted Cruz's friendship with the Donald could mean trouble for his campaign.
The last one’s a doozy.
“Liberal” being a relative term, naturally.
Five Texans who would be president.
The unlimited billionaire funding of Republican presidential candidates may actually keep the race alive until the Texas primary next March.
Ted Cruz proved you don’t have to be a millioinaire or an elected officeholder to grab the brass ring in Texas.
Might we recommend that the first official candidate of the 2016 season snatch up the currently available “CruzingToThePresidency.com”?
A few highlights from our archives relating to Texas’s junior senator.
As U.S. Senator Ted Cruz launches a presidential big, will he have to explain his gay marriage money to social conservatives?
As Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz launches a presidential campaign, he may have to explain how he started his political career with $260,000 in donations from gay marriage supporters.
Some questions about Barack Obama's explanation for his executive action on immigration, announced last week.
On Thursday, the president said that Congress had left him no choice but to act alone. Conservatives can argue otherwise.
A look at Texas's next lieutenant governor
Senator Ted Cruz jumped into the Net Neutrality debate with a tweet heard 'round the world yesterday. What does it really mean?
A Ted Cruz reference on True Blood apparently stuck in the Senator's craw.
Three Texas Republicans might be contenders in 2016.
Rick Perry's presidential ambitions have run into a formidable obstacle in his home state: fellow Texan Ted Cruz.
The rookie-sensation Senator who's totally not thinking about running for President just signed a deal to write his first book.
Ted Cruz should know better than to lambast federal judges for being unelected
Good morning, Texans. It’s great to see you all on BurkaBlog, and I’m tickled that I can start my time here by referring you to my profile of Ted Cruz–the cover story for our February issue. I began reporting this story in July. The idea was to publish