Most Recent in Politics:

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5Ken Paxton Wants to Eliminate the ACA’s Pre-Existing Condition Protections. How Would That Affect Texans?

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Most Recent in Environment:

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2How Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Appointment Would Affect Texans’ Air, Water and Land

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4Former TCEQ Employee Files Race and Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Agency

5Heads in the Mud

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2A San Antonio Art Show Quietly Foregrounds Migrants’ Stories

3Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

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5El Paso is on the Cutting Edge of Water Conservation. It Really Has No Choice.

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Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Civil Rights Groups are Changing Bail Practices in Texas, One City at a Time

2The Prosecution Rests

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4Waco Immigrant Mom Sues Private Prison Corporation over Alleged Sexual Abuse

5A Houston Art Exhibit Gazes Unflinchingly at the Cruelty of Mass Incarceration

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Most Recent in Education:

1In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

2Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

3Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

4What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

5SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

6Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

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2Judge Blocks Texas’ ‘Near Catastrophic’ Fetal Burial Law

3Reformers Hopeful the 2019 Legislature will Expand Texas’ Medical Marijuana Law

4How Anti-Abortion Activists are Training Their ‘Next Generation of Pro-Life Leaders’

5Professor Trill

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4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

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6The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

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2Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture

3‘Trinity’ Offers a Beautifully Fragmented Portrait of the Inventor of the Nuclear Bomb

4A New History Tears Down the Myth of the Texas Rangers

5Sarah Bird’s Lively New Novel Resurrects a Little-Known Civil War Hero

6‘Presidio’ is a Beautiful, Atmospheric Texas Novel that Doesn’t Cohere

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2100 Ways to Draw a Line

3Homeward Bound

4The Sisterhood

5The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

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2The Day the Windows Shook

3Women’s Work

4I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

5Somewhere It Hides a Well

6Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

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2Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

3Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

4Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

5Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

6Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

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1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Texas Legislature Stories

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Law Enforcement Increasingly Opposed to Abbott’s Agenda

by Gus Bova | Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 16:51 CST

A cap on property taxes joins a growing list of special session measures opposed by Texas law enforcement.

Gay Texas

Five Queer Predictions for LGBT Texas in 2017

Equality will be under attack in Austin, Washington

Tue, Jan 3, 2017 |

The Texas LGBT community likely will spend much of 2017 on the defensive — against both discriminatory state legislation and new federal threats posed by the ...Read More

Seven Anti-LGBT Laws That Remain on Texas’ Books

Democrats again seek to repeal discriminatory measures, but LGBT advocates say it’s unlikely.

Tue, Dec 13, 2016 |

Seven Anti-LGBT Laws That Remain on Texas’ Books Democrats again seek to repeal discriminatory measures, but LGBT advocates say it’s unlikely. Although thei...Read More

reproductive rights

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

How Reproductive Health Fared in the 84th Legislature

Wed, Jun 3, 2015 |

Conservative lawmakers found even more ways to restrict reproductive health care access across Texas this session, putting minors and poor women at risk....Read More

How Texas Became a New Front in Marijuana Legalization Fight

Tue, Jun 2, 2015 |

With strong right-wing bonafides, state Rep. David Simpson and lawmakers like him are leading a liberty-based charge to legalize marijuana in Texas....Read More

Rep. Sarah Davis Becomes First Texas GOP Lawmaker to Back Gay Marriage

Thu, May 21, 2015 |

Rep. Sarah Davis (R-West University Place) expressed support for same-sex marriage Thursday, becoming the first Republican state lawmaker in Texas history to p...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Closing the Gap: Seeking Better Care for Foster Kids in Texas

Foster kids live at the juncture of two broken systems, and the state is slow to find a solution.

Mon, May 4, 2015 |

Growing up in foster care, Reyna Mondragon fought to survive a broken and neglected system. Now, she advocates to help give other foster kids a better life....Read More

Dan Patrick

School Vouchers Survive Texas Senate

Mon, Apr 20, 2015 |

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has championed school voucher legislation since he entered the Senate in 2007, comparing the effort to the civil rights struggle. After num...Read More

by Steven Bodzin

The Lite Guv and the Frack Master

Chris Faulkner brings his brand of bravado and lots of cash to the Texas Capitol. So, what's he really after?

Tue, Apr 7, 2015 |

The man who calls himself the Frack Master has become the media's go-to Texas voice in favor of fracking, but it wasn't until he got involved in politics that h...Read More

Rep. Abel Herrero (D-Robstown)

No School Voucher Fight in House… Yet

Wed, Apr 1, 2015 |

A potentially contentious vote on a measure that would have banned school vouchers was avoided after its author withdrew the amendment....Read More

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