I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history ...
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 ...
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 ...
A version of this story ran in the March / April 2023 issue. The mysterious woman was lying on a high grassy ridge that offered a sweeping vista, but her eyes were closed. At first, she seemed asleep ...
Government flip-flopping and semantic ambiguity have led to premature declarations of victory over Trump's attack on my home ...
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Amanda Eyre Ward is an Austin writer and author of 13 novels—three of which are set in Texas and the rest scattered all over the world. Her latest book, Arrivals and Departures, out June 16, delves ...
Before contact with settlers, the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes were composed of multiple, autonomous bands that shared a similar culture and language, collectively known as Kitikiti’sh or kirikir?i:s ...