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

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

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If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of ...

Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.

"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a ...

More than a year and a half since Governor Greg Abbott launched his taxpayer-financed plan to build a border wall along the Texas-Mexico border, the state has made little progress. But Abbott may soon ...

A recently leaked memo recalls a sordid history of inappropriate surveillance, but it also identifies a concerning overlap between neo-fascists and hardline religious groups. “The thing that struck me ...

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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 ...