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Afghan refugees find a home on a San Antonio high school athletics team.
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A Caucus, if You Can Keep It
How small must their influence grow before House Democrats break with their collaborationist tradition?
How Trump Is Changing Higher Education: The View from UT-San Antonio
Around the country, university students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities, and fears for international students’ safety.
Opinion ⋆
Why I Still Believe Texas Can Be Better
“Texas taught me contradiction. It taught me how to love a place that doesn’t always love me back.”
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Politics
Here Are the New Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Texas Passed into Law
This session, the Legislature filed more anti-LGBTQ+ bills than ever before. The dozen that passed threaten to negatively impact queer Texans.
Texas House Passes Raft of Dan Patrick Priorities Imposing Conservative Mandates on Public Ed
In the final days of session, the lower chamber voted to further advance the classroom culture wars.
Border and Immigration
Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending
But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.
Legislature Mandates Sheriff-ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets
Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.
Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’
“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”
Culture
Art Is Immortality
Suddenly, Analina dips her head. Grief seems on the verge of overwhelming her—until something visibly intervenes…
The Love and Loss of the Quintanillas
A new documentary uses archival family footage to retell the story of Selena y Los Dinos.
A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’
Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.
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