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Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Big brother Kennedy is always watching

Big brother Kennedy is always watching

Editorial Board April 29, 2025

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a national autism registry, raising major concerns about privacy, scientific credibility and the rights of disabled individuals. While...

Abbott vouches for a failed school system

Abbott vouches for a failed school system

Editorial Board April 22, 2025

The state of public education in Texas may never be the same following the current state legislative session. Last Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives passed their school voucher proposal, Senate...

A quiet response to a loud problem

A quiet response to a loud problem

Editorial Board April 15, 2025

From California to North Carolina to Texas, no state is safe from the nationwide revocation of student visas. As of April 9, authorities have revoked international students’ visas in at least 29 states....

Make America pay again

Make America pay again

Editorial Board April 8, 2025

Since he began his second term, President Donald Trump has created tension between America and its trade partners. In February, he implemented a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico...

End the crusade against political speech

End the crusade against political speech

Editorial Board April 1, 2025

Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University and former Fulbright scholar Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday,...

Glitz, glitter, glamour and get gone

Glitz, glitter, glamour and get gone

Editorial Board March 25, 2025

The University of Texas System announced on March 18 that its universities are banned from sponsoring drag shows or hosting them in their facilities, a few weeks after the Texas A&M System’s board...

Congressional approval used to mean something

Congressional approval used to mean something

Editorial Board March 23, 2025

Shutting down the U.S. Department of Education was one of President Donald Trump’s most noteworthy campaign promises — one which he has now resolved to make due on. On March 20, he signed an executive...

A step towards tyranny

A step towards tyranny

Editorial Board March 18, 2025

President Donald Trump, in a brazen attack on yet another element of the First Amendment, has threatened funding cuts to any college, school or university allowing “illegal protests” to take place...

Cherry-picking press promotes propaganda

Cherry-picking press promotes propaganda

Editorial Board March 4, 2025

In an unprecedented consolidation of power over the press, the White House has announced that moving forward, it will decide what reporters are allowed to cover President Donald Trump and his actions....

Long live the brazen

Long live the brazen

Editorial Board February 25, 2025

President Donald Trump’s reelection brought in many changes for the country — from executive orders challenging civil rights to acquitting those who unleashed chaos on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 —...

Giving God a bad name

Giving God a bad name

Editorial Board February 18, 2025

Paula White-Cain became the first female pastor to deliver the incantation in a presidential inauguration at President Donald Trump’s 2017 swear-in ceremony. White-Cain is an ultra-conservative televangelist...

When America abandons the world

When America abandons the world

Editorial Board February 11, 2025

The U.S. Agency of International Development was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy as an independent agency of the federal government tasked with providing civilian foreign aid and development...

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