Sitting in a Brazoria County courtroom in 1994, Anthony Graves, a Black man, looked at his nearly all-white jury. He was on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and the state was seeking the death ...

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 ...

In a pre-dawn raid in November 1990, feds armed with warrants, padlocks, and chains seized everything Willie Nelson owned—his golf course, ranches, studio, all of it. Only one thing slipped through ...

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 ...

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

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

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.

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

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 ...

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

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