Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
The Atlantic The state’s power outages have revealed the difference between performative governance and actually governing. February 17, 2021 Montinique Monroe / Getty The great winter storm of 2021 has terrorized Texans, overwhelmed our energy grid, and made a mockery of our politicians and our much-vaunted independence. Here in Dallas, my family and I have intermittently been without power for three days. On Monday night, the coldest night on record in three decades, we were without power for 12 long hours. I pitched a tent in my children’s bedroom, and all of us—Mom, Dad, three kids,...