A Texas Austerity Crisis Is Playing Out City by City, School by School
Texas' local governments are facing growing fiscal pain. What’s that mean for the 2026 elections—and the 2027 session?
Dallas
Can a Great Museum City Survive the Censorious Right?
Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.
Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas
A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the LGBTQ+ celebration in the Lone Star State.
The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments.
Bringing Home the Story of Ben Spencer
An innocent Texan was caught for more than three decades in a web of lies and injustice.
Will Texas Cities Stay Silent on Gaza?
From Austin to San Antonio and Dallas to Houston, pro-Palestine advocates are pleading with recalcitrant local officials to take a stand for Gazans.
The Era of EBJ Comes to a Close
Longtime Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson passed away after a career that will be etched into the history of Texas politics.
How Texas Commission On Environmental Quality Helps Polluters Evade Federal Law
Environmental lawyers say the state watchdog agency lets polluters escape regulation through legal loopholes.
Poem: From There to Here
A silhouette, stationed at his Dallas valet stand awaiting the healthy, the wealthy, the privileged, the favored.
Strangest State: Eclipses and Flying Snakes
A young teen reporter covers the Ken Paxton impeachment on typewriter, serpents fall from the sky and more dispatches from far-flung Texas.