‘There Have to Be Limits’: Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down
New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death.”
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New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death.”
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A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration.
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Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.
Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.
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Does the state parks agency serve the people, or corporate interests?
The Texas senator’s iHeartMedia deal, which sent over $600,000 to an aligned super PAC, may have broken campaign finance laws—or exploited a new loophole.
The attorney general’s close ties to Texas’ right-wing think tank and its large network of uber-wealthy donors and special interests
A new investigation of a deadly fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked detention cell in Mexico shows that keys and fire extinguishers were readily available, but withheld.
Robie Flores’ “The In Between” is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.
“Surges in immigration do not constitute an ‘invasion’ within the meaning of the Constitution.”
Texas highways have destroyed and dominated our built environment. Megan Kimble’s book “City Limits” offers a new vision.
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
The documentary reminds us how to revel in creative play and the company of others.
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