Lupe Mendez, poetry editor of the Texas Observer, is author of the new book We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses ...

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

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

Editor’s Note: This story is the third installment in a series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Goliad County police kicked off one human smuggling ...

The world’s largest artificial intelligence data center complex is being built in Amarillo, and it’s almost seven times the size of Central Park. On June 26, 2025, Fermi America, an AI development ...

At this year’s Texas Democratic Party convention, sounds of the Corpus Christi coastline lulled Lone Star liberals into the recurring dream of a blue wave crashing over the state. After 30 years of ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue.

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2022 issue. These days the Kemah Boardwalk is a glitzy, overbuilt amusement park where competing pop songs blare from speakers and the smells of fried ...

Around 4 a.m. on May 15, in the 1-year-old South Texas town of Starbase, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-year-old man from nearby Donna, rode a scissor lift around 50 feet up toward the ceiling of the ...

Black Mexican American writer and teacher based in Houston. She is the author of We Are Owed. and Sana Sana and is a national ...