In Texas’s ICE facilities, immigrants remain in close quarters and sanitizer is running short. Advocates worry a COVID-19 outbreak could be severe.
Katy Caldwell, CEO of Legacy Community Clinics, talks to Texas Monthly about medical supply shortages, staff safety, and financial woes.
Smaller March festivals in places like Denton and McAllen were meant to raise funds for asylum seekers at the border and bolster local music communities.
Governor Greg Abbott is letting counties decide whether to postpone certain May elections. For the general, expanded vote by mail may be necessary.
Spending time outdoors is good for mental health. But as COVID-19 spreads in Texas, officials and citizens are grappling with whether, and how, we can enjoy public parks.
The Texas senator and congressman, along with Chip Roy, remain incorrigible in the face of the coronavirus.
A vaccine for the novel coronavirus is likely at least a year away, but the state’s large anti-vaccine community is ready to resist it.
Many closed schools are continuing meal service for low-income students, but challenges to securing nutrition remain for vulnerable children across the state.
Historically, the Lege has met shortfalls with tax increases or spending cuts. Whether Dems or the GOP are in power makes all the difference.
In Houston’s adult nightclubs, with cash transactions and close contact, exotic dancers say they’re forced to choose between health and a paycheck.
Governor Abbott and President Trump promised that testing will soon increase dramatically, but many Texans are frustrated with delays.
Plus, Michael Cloud takes on the disease of California, and what’s Rodney Ellis doing with that squirrel?
A single case of COVID-19 was all it took to bring Houston's favorite celebration to its knees.
Young people took jobs they thought would help turn Texas blue.
A Q&A on the public health decision that sent Austin reeling.
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The writing had been on the wall, and now it’s official.
We weigh in on the most important Super Tuesday races, recent results, and what it all means.
The city, which trained for a flu pandemic as recently as November, is ground zero for military medicine.
Nearly all of the new early voters in Collin County participated on the Democratic side, and blue vote totals were up across the state.
Texas prison officials think they can curb contraband by banning greeting cards, but prisoners say the drugs come in through guards, not mail.
Plus, the return of Robert Morrow, Bloomberg hires the “homeless Wi-Fi” guy, and Ronny Jackson reveals the secret to Trump’s excellent health.
Voters in the Laredo-based border district will choose between the eight-term conservative Democrat and a young, progressive immigration attorney who is running an unabashedly left-wing campaign.
A new poll asks the question that previous ones strongly suggested.
Ahead of Super Tuesday, the Sanders campaign has reached out to Muslim voters unlike any campaign before.
A new study applies pop-science data analysis to suggest we’re all going to hell.
Four years ago, Ogg won election by promising to reform the county’s justice system. Now she’s getting primaried by two of her former prosecutors, who say she hasn’t done enough.
The departure of the longtime Austin senator—for the greener pastures of higher education—will set off a fierce race for his seat.
The colorful mogul lost the 1990 gubernatorial election after making a joke about rape and admitting to not paying some income taxes.
This ties the most nominations Texas Monthly has ever received in a single year. The magazine’s four nominations were also the most bestowed upon any publication west of the Potomac.
The initiative follows on the heels of last summer’s announcement that the university will cover tuition for some students.
The Vermont socialist looks surprisingly strong in the Lone Star State.
Coming soon to a Texas highway near you: self-driving semis.
In his first interview since taking the reins, MD Anderson’s former chief medical executive discusses the need to modernize.
Few of the promises made to her family and community were kept. And Jakelin’s father has given up on the American Dream.
The longtime PBS news anchor’s influence grew out of his objective and ethical approach to covering the news.
Alto is betting that if a safer, more expensive ride-hailing service can turn a profit in Dallas, it can do it just about anywhere.
The author and UT professor believes our country is falling apart—and he has a plan to fix it.
Chancellor John Sharp pens a strongly worded defense of the integrity of his university’s work.
A new report finds that, when transportation costs are factored in, Texas’s biggest metros aren’t the bargain they often claim to be.
No matter that the federal government formally objects to his project and plans to build its own just two miles away.
Psych nurse Philippa Ashford was standing in her driveway when the bullet came down.
Immigrants in limbo under the “Remain in Mexico” program are prepared for the long haul.
For the second time in a week, the pro-Trump group has been told to stand down.
When Beto left Texas, he lost his way.
Crews have built a small section of steel fencing in Hidalgo County. Is it all for show?
Finally, a scientific means of determining whether Austin, Houston, Dallas, or Waco could hold out the longest against an army of bloodsuckers.
As part of his campaign against Austin’s homelessness rules, Greg Abbott tweeted an old video of a non-homeless man having a mental health episode. His attorney says the governor is “retraumatizing” the man and his family.
The embattled speaker of the Texas House, Dennis Bonnen, calls it quits.
Gulf Coast citizen-activists collected 30 million plastic pellets in order to prove that Formosa was violating the Clean Water Act.