At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious ...

For labor organizing, Texas was long dismissed as a forlorn place. “Right-to-work” laws restrict organizing here, most public ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border ...

As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes ...

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

Texas. Her chapbook, Gemini Gospel, was the winner of Host Publication's Chapbook Contest in Spring 2023. She teaches undergraduate literature at Texas State and coordinates the MFA in Creative ...

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If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

A version of this story ran in the July 2015 issue. In the summer of 2013, a team of forensic anthropologists from Baylor University and the University of Indianapolis descended upon Sacred Heart ...

More than a year and a half since Governor Greg Abbott launched his taxpayer-financed plan to build a border wall along the Texas-Mexico border, the state has made little progress. But Abbott may soon ...

The White Shaman mural is painted on the east wall of a southwest-facing shelter, and faces due west. The positioning of figures within the mural suggests alignment with sun and shadow as observed on ...