Posted on · Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller stresses rehabilitation over punishment for U.S. prisons and argues that doing nothing to reform the current system feeds a continued cycle of crime, community dysfunction, poverty and hopelessness.
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: New York Times correspondent Jonathan Martin discusses his book, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future. And we visit Juneteenth historical sites in Galveston.
Posted on · In this discussion about his newest novel, Harlan Coben continues the tradition of gripping suspense, jaw-dropping twists that are the trademarks of him being a master of the thriller genre.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: A campaign aims to encourage people to slow down in residential neighborhoods. And New York Times senior writer Jason DeParle talks about his years covering poverty and international migration.
Posted on · As she headlines a Houston symposium on climate change, Somini Sengupta discusses what she's learned as the global climate reporter for The New York Times.
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: A rise in pedestrian deaths. Lessons learned from covering climate change. Preventing gun violence at an early age. And protecting butterflies along the border.
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · Professors explain why they're opposing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Posted on · The Houston Matters experts discuss the latest national, state, and local political stories with an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas.
Posted on · Houston Matters discusses how issues of sexual misconduct are handled in Houston's srts community.
Posted on · About 50 of the journalists worked at The New York Times
Posted on · The Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division would investigate and sue universities over policies deemed to discriminate against white college applicants.
Posted on · President-elect Donald Trump had a wide-ranging talk with New York Times journalists. He disavowed the alt-right and also dismissed concerns about his potential conflicts of interests.
Posted on · One year ago tomorrow (Aug. 27, 2015), a University of Houston student named Alan Pean was shot while being treated at downtown Houston's St. Joseph Medical Center. Pean was having a psychotic episode when security was summoned to his room in the form of two off-duty HPD officers moonlighting as hospital security. They said Pean […]