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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A version of this story ran in the February 2013 issue. This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of ...

Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.