Update, October 26, 2023: On October 26, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Will Speer’s execution to allow the court to determine the merit of his lawyers’ claims that the state’s original ...

I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history ...

From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has ...

Pamela Colloff’s debut book is a propulsive study of a fatally flawed tactic beloved by prosecutors in Texas and beyond.

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy ...

As many as 20 million of the winged mammals gather at one Texas Hill Country cave, creating one of nature’s most jaw-dropping ...

Despite the grip of conservative Christianity on Texas politics, religion here has always contained multitudes, a new work of ...

She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die. Pam Perillo greets me at the door of her trailer, the yaps of a chihuahua named ...

A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out. On a cold winter morning in ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. The ironies that affix themselves to the life and literature of Larry McMurtry are best exemplified by the title of his autobiographical ...

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