Sewell Chan
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Austin, TX, United States
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Past articles by Sewell:
Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks
Some 5,100 delegates and alternates voted on a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature’s right to regulate guns. → Read More
Protesters across U.S. and Texas join March for Our Lives rallies against gun violence
Outside the Capitol in Austin, relatives of Jackie Cazares, 9, and Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, two of the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, tearfully addressed a crowd. → Read More
T-Squared: David Pasztor is named senior editor and writing coach
Our most experienced editor, David will edit narratives centered around a person or place and coach our journalists on the storytelling craft. → Read More
T-Squared: John Hernandez is joining The Texas Tribune as our assistant director of audience
He will relentlessly advocate for our existing audience and work to reach the Texans who do not yet know about us. → Read More
T-Squared: Jinitzail Hernández is our new video journalist
A Chicago native, she joins us from CQ Roll Call, where she produced articles, podcasts and videos on public policy, including defense and national security. → Read More
T-Squared: Zach Despart is joining The Texas Tribune as a politics reporter
A dogged accountability journalist, Despart will help center our political coverage on ordinary Texans and expose failures of governance and abuses of power. → Read More
T-Squared: Pu Ying Huang is The Texas Tribune’s next photo editor
Huang is an accomplished photojournalist who has built an impressive body of work in Texas and Latin America. → Read More
Allyson Waller is The Texas Tribune’s next newsletter writer
She moves from the Tribune’s editorial team to our audience team, where she will take charge of our flagship email newsletter, The Brief. → Read More
T-Squared: The Texas Tribune needs you more than ever
Revelatory, deep and empathetic reporting takes time — and money. The support members give now will sustain the Tribune's crucial newsgathering next year. → Read More
Opinion: Nancy Pelosi's gratitude, and the problem with Black martyrdom
The House speaker said, 'Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice.' It was not a wise choice of words. → Read More
Opinion: The unintended truth in Trump’s farewell address: A loss of faith
Trump warned us not to lose faith in 'values, history, and heroes.' The sad truth is that he was one of the chief reasons such faith has eroded. → Read More
Opinion: Kevin McCarthy’s head-spinning hypocrisy
If the Republicans are to survive as a political party, their leaders must start telling the truth — the first being that Biden won a free and fair election. → Read More
Opinion: About that page of pro-Trump letters...
Giving a full letters page to Trump voters turned the L.A. Times into a platform for propaganda, some readers said. Others appreciated it. → Read More
To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts
Acknowledging historic failures to cover communities of color is a prerequisite to creating an antiracist future → Read More
Opinion: A young reporter's 9/11
There is, to my mind, a tragic arc that connects Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump, one of endless war and relentless polarization and tumult. → Read More
Opinion: Gettysburg is sacred ground. Don't defile it with politics.
In considering the Civil War battlefield as a possible site of his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination, President Trump threatens to defile hallowed ground. → Read More
Editorial: I fought it as long as I could. Then I bought a car
I bought my first car this week. It smelled like defeat. → Read More
Suzanne Nossel book 'Dare to Speak' tackles cancel culture
Suzanne Nossel, drawing on her experience as a diplomat, tries to find a way through the speech debate in her new book, "Dare to Speak." → Read More
Margaret Sullivan's 'Ghosting the News' diagnoses a crisis
The Washington Post media columnist's 'Ghosting the News' diagnoses the disastrous decline in local papers. → Read More
The link between anti-Black racism and Trump's 'kung flu' comment
The comment is a reminder of the xenophobia that has often been the bedfellow of racism in America. → Read More