The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries were contributing factors in at least 200 death sentence exonerations.

Every day the Permian Basin brings up more water than nearby communities use, and treats most of it as waste. The state can ...

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott posted on social media about the then-president, going on to say that “deadly open border ...

On May 20, a black hearse drawn by dark horses led the march of University of Texas at Austin students, clad all in black ...

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

At this year’s Texas Democratic Party convention, sounds of the Corpus Christi coastline lulled Lone Star liberals into the recurring dream of a blue wave crashing over the state. After 30 years of ...

Narratives collected by the federal Works Progress Administration, like the one recounted here, are an invaluable tool for retelling American history.

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue.

On a sunny mid-July evening, dozens packed into a community center in Memorial, one of west Houston’s cushier neighborhoods, to meet state Representative James Talarico, the Austin Democrat whose ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, non-profit news organization. Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2024 issue. Traffic had once again ground to a halt on the interstate highway that cuts through the Texas border city of Laredo, and Priscilla ...