Are Texas Republicans Serious About Secession?
Calls for independence are growing louder on the right. Maybe that would change if more Texans understood the costs of such a move.
Calls for independence are growing louder on the right. Maybe that would change if more Texans understood the costs of such a move.
The convenience of the store’s grocery-pickup service comes at a small financial cost. The personal price is up to you.
By declaring that “evil will always walk among us” or calling for Texans to “unify in faith,” politicians communicate specific ideas to the electorate.
Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud have made life more difficult and dangerous for poll workers.
The lieutenant governor’s rural bus tour looks more like an extended vacation than a reelection bid.
It’s become a Texas tradition to hold brief gubernatorial debates during high school football prime time.
When Texas Monthly covered Enron's fall in 2001, we wondered if the company was an outlier or the new normal. There's no longer any question.
Ahead of Friday’s gubernatorial debate, Texas Monthly’s news and politics team came up with hard questions for both candidates.
An abortion to save the life of a pregnant patient is “not an abortion,” according to Texas’s junior senator.
Founded by Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman, and David Jolly, the new party claims to encompass the left, right, and center. Its Houston launch, while well attended, prompted doubts about its viability.
Seventy percent of Texas prisons do not have AC, except for a small number of ill and elderly inmates, an issue that the Legislature has repeatedly punted on.
In 1982, Dick J. Reavis chronicled the first government-led lethal injection in world history—and the last moments of Charlie Brooks's life.
Uvalde-based activist group Fierce Madres partnered with Moms Against Greg Abbott to erect the anti-Abbott signage.
The grocery chain opens its first north Dallas–Fort Worth location and hopes thousands of newly arrived Texans will understand its twang.
Twenty months after the former president left office, those who carried out his administration’s cruelest policy are still in place.
The Texas governor’s plan has been adopted by Ron DeSantis in Florida, and it has grown crueler as it spreads.
The conservative legal luminary, famous for the Clinton impeachment and his leadership of Baylor, mistook piety for doing what’s right.
A recent neighborhood fight demonstrates how the outsized influence of existing homeowners restricts supply in a city that badly needs 135,000 new homes.
Texans have stood by their attorney general through two criminal indictments and a host of other scandals. Is there any misdeed that might stick to his Teflon coating before the November election?
On his summer barnstorming tour of Texas, Beto O’Rourke argued that Republicans are waging war against Texas values.
With workers continuing to stay home post-pandemic and housing in short supply, developers in the state’s largest metros are giving a second life to old buildings.
The lieutenant governor said the company was “discriminating against the oil and gas industry." He didn’t mention his own holdings in the firm.
How Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka held the powerful to account—and made Texas a better place.
Undermining public schools has been a winning strategy for governors in several states. But for many rural, conservative communities in Texas, such schools are the only game in town.
The humble material has long been used to build homes in the desert. But working with adobe isn’t so simple anymore.
Plans were underway to revive tourism at Fort Clark Springs in southwest Texas. But then, in a scenario increasingly common across the state, the water stopped flowing.
The region has long been characterized as adamantly opposed to abortion rights. But the reality is more complicated. And times are changing.
Gregg Phillips, a former Texas official who claims that “2,000 mules” stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, has raised millions of dollars to chase nonexistent fraudulent votes.
Remington Johnson has become a touchstone for the families of transgender children.
On a state advisory committee, only one member has experience developing wind or solar power. And he’s voiced some eyebrow-raising ideas.
We asked for clarification from 99 Texas legislators who support the law, plus the attorney general who will enforce it, for clarification. Only one granted an interview.
Chemical engineer Guihua Yu’s team works with tiny particles to try to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, state Republicans near-unanimously lined up behind the former president—before details of the investigation left them silent.
Plus, a man stole $10,000 worth of bleachers, and landscapers discovered human remains in a backyard barbecue pit.
The periodical, first published in 1818 and known for its simplistic and broad extended forecasts, says its largest readership is in Texas. We talked with the editor about why that might be—and what’s in store for the state this winter.
The freelance journalist disappeared in Syria in 2012. His family in Houston hasn’t given up on seeing him come home.
Homeowners could take much more burden off the power grid, if cities and utilities would get out of the way.
Texas leads the U.S. in maternity ward closures, and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.
In a week marked by militant rhetoric at CPAC—including Ted Cruz’s promise to “fight the barbarians”—the former president vowed to inflict a “crippling defeat” on his enemies.
The damages awarded this week in Austin are only the beginning of the likely end of Jones and Infowars. But it remains to be seen what that means for other purveyors of misinformation.
“The globalists can all go to hell,” the authoritarian populist said at CPAC. “I have come to Texas.”
Meet the woman who made the Infowars host shut up.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Bankston and F. Andino Reynal, who represents Infowars in the case, both have distinct challenges. Last week, their tensions boiled over.
Fifteen years after the popular journalist’s death, we’re living in the world she saw coming—and struggling to follow her example of joyful opposition.
On Wednesday in Austin, the head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission will interview the author of the latest forensic-science takedown.
The oil giant this week announced quarterly earnings that set an all-time record for any Texas business. That’s both good and bad news for the state.
Cart.com’s Omair Tariq is out to prove his tech company is a giant-killer.
The trial this week in Austin to determine what Infowars owes in damages for defaming Sandy Hook parents could have had huge free-speech implications. Because of Jones’s choices, it won’t.
Franklin Bynum has tried to reform the Harris County criminal justice system from within. That's made him a target of the district attorney.
Two brothers in Dallas tried for years to correct the misspellings and omissions. Now they’re heartbroken.