The West Texas Days of the Exiled Prince Who Wants to Lead Iran
When Reza Pahlavi arrived at the United States Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, in June 1978, two…
Goodbye to Alex Jones’s Infowars, the Darkest Product of Austin’s Weirdness
Infowars’ time as the mouthpiece of Austin far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is, pending a final review in…
Texas’s Gerrymander for Trump Seems to Have Backfired
Back in August, state Representative Mitch Little, Republican of Lewisville, had an admirably masculine sound bite for CNN’s…
Why Matt Lanza Is Leaving Houston
Since moving to Houston in 2012, meteorologist Matt Lanza has seen it all. Freak windstorms. Record-setting freezes and…
The Texas GOP Has a Plan to Make Part of New Mexico New Texas
Last week, the Texas House of Representatives published the interim committee charges for the Eighty-Ninth Legislative Session, and…
Lina Hidalgo’s Latest Rival? The Houston Rodeo.
For three weeks every March, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo takes over the Bayou City. Athleisure is…
How the Issue of Stock Trading Became Central to a Competitive Texas Primary
Colin Allred and Julie Johnson were once something like political allies. In 2024, Allred, a U.S. congressman, endorsed…
The Race for Texas’s Most Boring Office Is Exciting. That’s Concerning.
Any honest libertarian seeking elected office faces an existential crisis: He can lose a hero or win and…
A Cool-Headed Guide to the Fiery Crockett-Talarico Texas Primary
I wish we were a real party, with real primaries, said the Texas Democrat. And lo, the monkey’s…
Oil Binds Venezuela’s Future to Texas. Will It Bring Freedom?
When I moved from Venezuela to Texas in my mid-twenties, so much felt unfamiliar. I missed the tropical…
What Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet’s Win Tells Us About the 2026 Elections
On a Sunday in mid-January, Taylor Rehmet darted around north Tarrant County, knocking on doors, stumping at a…
The Meltdown Over Texas A&M
Few places on the main campus of Texas A&M University bear a stronger connection to the school’s civic…