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- When 20-year-old John Rickert walked into the third meeting of the Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability on September 1, he expected the kind of political sparring he sees play out online every day. What he found instead was something rarer, and to him, far more encouraging. “For almost the entirety of the… The post One Team in the Room: Young Texan Finds Hope in Bipartisan Push to Lower Health Care Costs appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Every week, readers write in asking how to navigate relationships strained by today’s political climate. Our “Dear Builders” series offers a little guidance for holding onto the people who matter, even when you don’t see eye to eye. This week’s email comes from a reader who loves… The post Dear Builders: My Husband Is MAGA, and I Don’t Like Who He Becomes When He Talks Politics appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Ask a Texan what’s keeping them up at night heading into November’s midterms, and you probably won’t hear much about the culture-war fight of the week. You’ll hear about the rent, property taxes, and insurance premiums that keep climbing. Affordability has taken center stage in this year’s… The post 6 Reasons for the Texas Affordability Crisis appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders I recently got some friends together for a Builders BBQ, where hosts are challenged to invite friends and family – including those who may see the world differently – to have those often-tricky political-to-politically-adjacent conversations over good food. Some of them were chomping at the bit for… The post I Got My Friends Together to Talk Politics — Here’s How it Went appeared first on Builders.
- Conspiracy theories and gender war hot takes derail the conversation we should be having about postpartum care By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Lindsay Clancy is a Massachusetts mother who admitted to strangling her three young children to death in 2023 while in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis. As of this writing, the… The post We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Lindsay Clancy appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Dolly Parton passed away Tuesday at the age of 80, and in a country that often seems like it can’t agree(opens in new tab) on anything, somehow we all agreed on Dolly. She was a devout Christian(opens in new tab) who became a gay-rights icon. A rhinestone… The post Dolly Parton Was Someone We Could All Agree On appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Flock surveillance cameras were nowhere, then everywhere. Perched on high. Watching. While the majority of Americans may feel uneasy under their gaze, many feel safer. And it’s sparked a debate about where privacy ends and public safety begins. Should you allow Flock to nest in your neighborhood? Or… The post 8 Things to Know Before Flock Cameras Come to Your Town appeared first on Builders.
- By Rhea Chowdhary Across rural Texas, data centers are rising faster than almost anywhere in the country, their smooth glassy walls dropped into wide-open ranchland where they look like they arrived from another planet. The state already runs more than 400(opens in new tab) of them, second only to Virginia, and it’s positioned to… The post The Unlikely Coalition Fighting Data Centers in Rural Texas appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders Two hours from the nearest stoplight, the Rio Grande carves through canyons that drop 1,500 feet beneath the desert floor, under some of the darkest night skies in the Lower 48. Big Bend National Park sprawls across more than 800,000 acres of desert and canyon country, drawing… The post Trump Wall in Big Bend: 6 Things You Need to Know appeared first on Builders.
- The backlash highlights the impossible demands placed on the modern American woman By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat on her beige sofa with her French bulldog beside her and uploaded a video of herself preparing a hormone injection(opens in new tab), she knew what was coming. She said… The post AOC Freezing Her Eggs Should Have United the Left and Right — it Split Them Instead appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders As our kids head back to school this month, we at Builders thought we’d join them. Not literally, of course (we’ve gained a few and no longer fit comfortably in a locker). But in the spirit of education, we thought now would be the perfect time to… The post 7 Resources for Talking to People You Disagree With appeared first on Builders.
- By Alex Buscemi, Editorial Manager at Builders We’re all neighbors(opens in new tab). But the steep political divides(opens in new tab) running through the country can make that awfully hard to see. Every week, readers write in asking how to navigate relationships(opens in new tab) strained by today’s political climate. Our “Dear Builders” series… The post “I’m a Conservative Who Got in a Blowout Fight With My Liberal Future Father-in-Law. Now I’m Wondering if the Marriage Will Work” appeared first on Builders.