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

As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes ...

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 ...

Nonfiction that's meant to be started, finished, and leave you with something to show for it ...

As a former student of Texas public schools, much of what I remember from Texas history class boils down to this: General López de Santa Anna, of Mexico, was evil incarnate—my old friends and I still ...

A version of this story ran in the May 2016 issue. The first thing she noticed was Sheriff Pamela Elliott standing across the street. It was an August evening in 2014, and Rachel Gallegos had just ...