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Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Brandon Bell/Getty Images.The Texas governor has taken his attacks on liberal cities like Austin to a new level, with a measure that can wipe out whole swaths of city- and county-level laws and regulations. Critics are calling it the “Death Star” law . John PfaffTwo years after making a harrowing escape from Afghanistan and arriving in the U.S. Yalda Royan is still waiting for a decision in her asylum case.
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