The Dumbest Week in Texas Politics, in Five Acts
Man’s darkest arts—espionage, subterfuge, legerdemain—continue to haunt the U.S. Senate race in Texas as it enters its closing…
How Abbott and Paxton Manufactured Charges Against a Mosque
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Why Fort Worth ISD Couldn’t Stop a State Takeover
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Ken Paxton Transformed the Texas AG’s Office. What Comes Next?
In most ways, the year 1998 doesn’t seem like the distant past. Christopher Nolan released a movie. Willie…
The Bad Decisions That Led to Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis
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The Onetime Boy Wonder of Texas Politics Has a Lot of Stories to Tell
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The Filthy Reality Inside Austin’s First Influencer Building
They came for the red-light therapy room and the yoga studio overlooking downtown Austin’s Lady Bird Lake. They…
In Houston, an ICE Killing Holds a Mirror Up to the City
The Houston City Council hosted its usual public session on Tuesday, a week to the day Lorenzo Salgado…
How to Waste $2.6 Billion on Border Security in the Big Bend
Perhaps Raymond Skiles should be relieved. A few months ago, the Trump administration was laying the groundwork to…
Hundreds of Texas Teachers Were Investigated for Posting About Charlie Kirk. Here’s What Happened Next.
In her 28 years as a teacher working at schools in the Harris County area, Jennifer Courtemanche felt…
A Judge Issued a Rebuke of the Texas GOP’s Claims About EPIC
For more than a year, high-profile Texas Republicans have argued that Muslims are secretly plotting to take over…
How Can One Congressman Represent Both Austin and Odessa? I Hit the Road to Find Out. – Texas Monthly
The distance from the eastern edge of Pflugerville to West Odessa is roughly the same distance as the…