After ruling the state for a century, Texas Democrats were gradually reduced to irrelevance. Is the reawakening at hand?

A dramatic increase in border security over the past six years has made the Sierra Blanca inspection station one of the nation’s toughest. And I oughta know.

At the Fort Griffin Fandangle, Texas’s oldest outdoor musical, an all-amateur local cast reenacts its own bloody history.

The messy, lonely, and visionary life of the first Texas writer—and the first Latino—to win the vaunted PEN/Faulkner Award.

Rick Perry’s legacy will rise and fall on the “Texas miracle.” Is it real? If so, should he get the credit?

Readers respond to the July issue.

Offering fine advice since 2007.

Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.

Can the company that changed personal computing muster a second act?

You think you’re scared. Clarence here is about to mate for the first time. After which he’ll be killed and eaten.

Why Republicans were wrong to be outraged when FEMA denied disaster aid to West.

Longview’s Forest Whitaker is having the sort of year that should put him in the Hollywood elite once and for all.

After years as an in-demand fiddle payer, Amanda Shires is redefining herself as a boundary-breaking singer-songwriter. Emphasis on “writer.”

August’s must-attend concerts, shows, and festivals.

Because when you’ve got it, flaunt it.

Whether man-made or natural, the charms of South Padre Island are pretty much impossible to resist (especially after a couple of turbo piña coladas).

Let us now praise the large bowl of cheese, so simple and yet so satisfying.

Paul Qui’s new Austin restaurant firmly establishes him as one of the state’s best chefs. And its most whimsical.