‘Life is a Fight’: Scenes from a Migrant Tent Camp in Juárez

While waiting for a chance to seek asylum, people found ways to carry on with daily life while hoping their luck would change.
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    Health Care

    Critical Condition

    Rural health care is in crisis around the country, but Texas is suffering the most. At least 20 small-town hospitals have closed since 2013.
  • Hollie-Jawaid taught her daughter, Imani Nia Ramirez, and son about Slocum "as soon as they could understand words." by
    Human Rights

    Where the Bodies are Buried

    In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
  • Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conducts a news conference after the Senate Policy luncheons in the Capitol on March 13, 2018. by
    Politics

    Who Is John Cornyn Serving?

    The senior senator from Texas has mastered the art of political subservience, making him very powerful—and perhaps vulnerable.
  • Seagulls fly at the proposed site for a liquefied natural gas export facility along the Brownsville Ship Channel. by
    Environment

    Bridge to Nowhere

    Where the Texas Gulf Coast meets Mexico, a trio of fossil fuel companies is planning an industrial complex the likes of which Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has never seen.
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