Update, October 26, 2023: On October 26, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Will Speer’s execution to allow the court to determine the merit of his lawyers’ claims that the state’s original ...

The attorney general's office once aggressively pursued fraudsters targeting immigrants. Not on Ken Paxton's watch.

A script is included at the bottom of the HTML text—available here at left to be copied—that allows us to track traffic on ...

And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths ...

Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed "suicide by police." Some ...

She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die. Pam Perillo greets me at the door of her trailer, the yaps of a chihuahua named ...

A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out. On a cold winter morning in ...

In late June, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) set controversial new curriculum requirements for the state’s public schools, which educate approximately 5.5 million students. Alongside ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. The ironies that affix themselves to the life and literature of Larry McMurtry are best exemplified by the title of his autobiographical ...

Last, I’m excited to welcome Jason Buch, another longtime contributor, to the masthead as a special investigative ...

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A version of this story ran in the March / April 2023 issue. The mysterious woman was lying on a high grassy ridge that offered a sweeping vista, but her eyes were closed. At first, she seemed asleep ...