Travel & Outdoors
April 29, 2024
Cut the Crape Myrtle! Texas Deserves a Better State Shrub
Crape myrtles are nonnative and often hideously pruned. How about the azalea?
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Travel & Outdoors
October 16, 2023
Texans Worship Brands, but We Should Celebrate Our Native Flora and Fauna Too
Step aside, Buc-ee’s and Blue Bell. Where’s the love for horny toads, swallowtails, and passion vine?
Travel & Outdoors
August 3, 2023
Why Texans Should Log Off and Touch Grass
Gardening brings us together, even as culture wars divide us over almost everything else.
News & Politics
June 28, 2021
Dear Austinites, You Have Permission to Move to an Affordable, Weird City: Houston
If you’re trying to buy a home, then you’re probably a grown-up. You deserve a grown-up city—the city of Houston.
Travel & Outdoors
March 3, 2021
Inside the Ambitious Plan to Redesign Houston’s Biggest Park
A ten-year, $205 million renovation is transforming Houston’s Memorial Park from a dense and dying thicket into a lush oasis. But is this restoring nature or replacing it?
Politics & Policy
September 16, 2020
Build the Ike Dike!
Instead of wasting time on tiresome culture wars, Texas’s political leaders ought to be thinking big. They could start by saving Houston from disaster.
Books
June 16, 2020
Is Houston a Prophetic City? Or a Pathetic City?
Rice sociologist Stephen Klineberg’s portrait of Houston focuses on the busts, not the booms—and still remains optimistic.
Energy
March 10, 2020
Houston Is Not Prepared for the Oil Bust
Get those $400 fajitas while you can, because Houston's boom is over.
Politics & Policy
November 26, 2019
Tony Buzbee Ran as a Trumpian Shark in the First Round of the Houston Mayoral Race. Now He Appears to Be Dead in the Water.
To beat Sylvester Turner in the runoff, the flamboyant millionaire needs to be aggressive and smart. Instead, Buzbee’s campaign is lackluster.
Politics & Policy
November 4, 2019
The Crowded Houston Mayoral Race Has Shaken Up Traditional Bayou City Politics
Despite, or maybe because of, Mayor Sylvester Turner’s business-as-usual approach, the race is surprisingly contentious.