Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1Historic Runoff Turnout Sets Stage for Texas Democrats in 2020’s ‘Biggest Battleground’

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3Doctors Reverse Course, Say Texas GOP Should Cancel In-Person Convention

4The Next Census Could Determine the Future of Port Arthur

5Texas Had a State Office That Could Have Investigated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases. Lawmakers Defunded it Three Years Ago.

6The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

Most Recent in Environment:

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2How Texas Lawmakers and Industry Have Weakened Citizens’ Rights to Fight Pollution

3Texas Relaxed Environmental Enforcement During the Pandemic, State Data Show

4Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

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Most Recent in Border:

1El Paso Remembered

2Back to the Wall

3Between Borders

5Along the Border, Witnesses of Smuggling Crimes Are Being Held in Detention, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

6In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1In Harris County, A Group is Working to Expand Voting Access in Jails

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3How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell?

4Reform vs. Rebuild: Defunding Law Enforcement in Texas

5As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Some Incarcerated People Remain Behind Bars After Making Bail

6A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

Most Recent in Education:

1The New Ensemble

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

4‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

6The Cost of Carve-Outs

Most Recent in Health Care:

1One of Texas’ Biggest Nursing Home Operators Beset By COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

2Telehealth Could be Great, if Texans Had Access to It

3Texas Nursing Home Residents Were Already at Risk. Then COVID-19 Hit.

4Neglected in Care

5COVID-19 is Surging in Rural Texas, Threatening to Overwhelm Local Hospitals

6He Removed Labels That Said ‘Medical Use Prohibited,’ Then Tried to Sell Thousands of Masks to Officials Who Distribute to Hospitals

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2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

3Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

4Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

Most Recent in Books:

1‘A Saint From Texas’ Gets the Lone Star State Right

2‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies

3In ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ Kelli Jo Ford Explores How Pain is Passed Down Through Families

4In ‘Separated,’ One Journalist’s Close-up View of the Family Separation Crisis

5Lawrence Wright Embraces Pandemic Panic in ‘The End of October’

6Is it Time to Rethink Texas Suburbia?

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3San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

4The Ghosts of Jefferson

5Little Arthouse on the Prairie

6The Clothes that Make the Man

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3What’s a Bookstore for?

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5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

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2Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

3Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

5Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Articles tagged: political asylum

‘Even the Birds and Animals Are Free’

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Asylum-seeker Jeelani Ghulam traveled through 11 countries over one year from Pakistan to the U.S.-Mexico border, but his ordeal was only beginning....Read More

by Emma Pérez-Treviño , Gus Bova , Jen Reel and Melissa del Bosque

America Beyond Detention

Thu, Dec 29, 2016 |

By Gus Bova, Melissa del Bosque, Jen Reel and Emma Pérez-Treviño The United States portrays itself as a beacon of freedom and liberty, yet it operates the wor...Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

New Study Finds Immigration Officers Ordering Unlawful Deportations

Thu, Dec 4, 2014 |

More than two million people have been deported since President Obama took office in 2008. Among this massive number, an increasing number of people with valid ...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Congressman Beto O’Rourke: There is No Border Crisis

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 |

For Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso), the response to the influx of refugees from Central America is sickeningly out of touch with reality. ...Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

As Honduras Unravels, U.S. Struggles to Cope with Refugees

Tue, May 6, 2014 |

A growing movement of Central Americans protest mistreatment by authorities, criminals in Mexico....Read More

Indian Asylum Seekers Still Detained After Hunger Strike

by Melissa del Bosque

Fri, Apr 25, 2014

The hunger strike has ended at the El Paso Processing Center but at least 37 men from northern India say they are still being wrongfully detained after requesti...Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

United Nations: Children Crossing the Border Qualify for Asylum

Thu, Mar 13, 2014 |

A majority of the unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border should qualify for political asylum, according to the Unit...Read More

by Priscila Mosqueda

Exiled Mexican Seeking Asylum Pedals for Justice

Sat, Nov 9, 2013 |

After losing his legs to drug violence in Mexico, Carlos Gutierrez began a 12-day bike ride across Texas to raise awareness about Mexican asylum-seekers....Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

Member of Well-Known Mexican Activist Family Granted Asylum

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 |

Marisela Reyes Salazar, a human rights activist from Mexico, has won her political asylum case in the United States. ...Read More

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