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

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

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

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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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Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes she’s starting “on second or third base.” ...

A version of this story ran in the June 2015 issue. This is the fourth, and final, story in a series. Juan Ramirez grew up in poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, in a neighborhood infested with drug-and ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2020 issue. The years living on the street showed in Alvin Sanderson’s weatherworn face as he approached the microphone at Austin City Hall last ...

In 1975, Terese Hershey, one of the state’s most influential conservationists, purchased a 1,561-acre tract of land in Stonewall, Texas. For years, she protected the property from the encroachment of ...

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 ...