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A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential ...

Texas Dem quorum-breakers are seeking to protect voter rights nationwide, but they’re likely engaged in little more than a ...

A sharp-eyed retiree uncovered evidence of judicial misconduct by the chief judge of Houston’s busy bankruptcy court. The ...

Texas writer and director Katherine Craft's Audible comedy depicts a musician's tumultuous return to Plano as she adjusts to ...

José Skinner’s fast-paced satire delivers sharp insights gleaned from years lived in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley.

From Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

A redistricting expert discusses Tom Delay, ‘dummymanders,’ and the long history of racial gerrymandering in the state.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement rolls out necessary training, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office joins a growing ...

Longtime advocate Jorge Antonio Renaud lyricizes the grit of prison life in his first published collection of poems, The ...

Reviews The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.