Why Bumble Is Joining a Lawsuit That Challenges Texas Abortion Laws
This week, the women-focused dating app joined dozens of other Texas companies that say ambiguity around life-saving medical care is bad for business.
Peter Holley is a seventh-generation Texan and a native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas. Before joining Texas Monthly, he was a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he reported on breaking national and international news. Holley has reported from Afghanistan and Iraq and spent a year working for an English-language newspaper in Lahore, Pakistan. He earned a BA in pre-law from American University in Washington, D.C., and holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City. His writing has appeared in the San Antonio Express-News, the New York Post, Newsday, Columbia Journalism Review, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times.
This week, the women-focused dating app joined dozens of other Texas companies that say ambiguity around life-saving medical care is bad for business.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In their new book ‘Chokeholds,’ researchers argue Lee Harvey Oswald was just one piece of a sprawling conspiracy—one that other investigators claim never existed at all.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
After Hurricane Katrina, Darresha George moved her family to Texas. When school officials suspended her son for refusing to cut his hair, it unleashed a storm that shows no signs of easing.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A pastor in Austin asked the artificial intelligence chatbot to write an entire Sunday service. It bombed.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Pecan trees are dying across Central Texas during the second-hottest summer on record, prompting farmers to consider the future of the beloved state tree.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In far West Texas, where loneliness abounds, one man is on a quest to redefine the meaning of love and companionship.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A Dallas billionaire says his new luxury resort in a near-pristine parcel west of Austin is a model of sustainability. The caretaker of the nature reserve next door isn’t buying it.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A new era of climate change–fueled heat waves is pushing the high priests of Texas barbecue to their limit.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Austin's signature green space is at the center of a long-running debate over how much the city should cling to its past as it prepares for the future.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In his new book, ‘The Heat Will Kill You First,’ Austin-based journalist Jeff Goodell examines climate change in its most essential form: temperature rise.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Texans have never been afraid of summer temperatures. This year’s record-breaking heat wave should make us think twice.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
What began as a baseless theory has turned into a social media frenzy, with the power to frighten the public and hamper police investigations.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Customers “tell me it’s better than therapy, actually, and cheaper, too,” said a trainer at one rental facility.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
As lawmakers consider bills targeting their livelihoods, queer Texans say more members of their community intend to defend themselves.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
They have swimming pools, dozens of beds, and at least one stripper pole in a backyard school bus (you read that right). Locals say they’re are turning a vulnerable community into a “theme park” for hard-partying tourists.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The former football star says his campaign for the U.S. Senate began in his home outside Dallas. Will it end there as well?
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Calls for independence are growing louder on the right. Maybe that would change if more Texans understood the costs of such a move.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Thousands of years after they were wiped out from the area, an obsessed wildlife ecologist has found evidence that the bucktoothed critters are beginning to recolonize.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
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.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A severe pregnancy complication and the state’s strict limits on abortion combined to leave an expectant mother with few options—none of them good.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The lovable Buc-ee’s mascot appears to be the latest victim of “hatejacking,” when an extremist group adopts a popular brand to advance its agenda.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
For decades, Terlingua was a refuge for cowboys, wanderers, and weirdos. Now it’s an increasingly popular getaway for well-heeled urbanites.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
With an abortion ban looming as the Supreme Court prepares to overturn Roe, the heartbreak of trying to provide reproductive care is too much for some.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Charlie Cain and Steve Skarnulis were used to litigating East Texas oil and gas disputes. Then a terrified voting-machine company employee, falsely implicated in the 2020 election’s biggest conspiracy theory, came calling.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
After surviving a devastating accident that left her disabled, Amber McDaniel felt like she could overcome anything. Then her ten-year-old son contracted a rare condition associated with COVID-19.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A few months ago, Jennifer Bridges’s refusal to abide by Houston Methodist’s vaccine mandate thrust her into the national spotlight. Now she’s become a purveyor of conspiracy theories that have fueled the pandemic’s continuation.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Who can be sued under Senate Bill 8? What is the “shadow docket”? When will the Supreme Court rule on the merits of the law?
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business.
The island's latest storm has no season.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The linebacker arrived in the United States at ten, knowing nothing about football. Now he's stealing the show on HBO's ‘Hard Knocks.’
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In Rockport, a celebrated artist is planning to install sculptures depicting the first contact between European explorers and the Karankawa. Is it a representation of a key moment in the area’s history, or a glorification of colonialism?
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Inside the state’s biggest hospitals, doctors say a surge of unvaccinated COVID patients is almost too bewildering to believe.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Earlier this month, a federal board removed the word “Negro” from sixteen locations in Texas, but the state map is still rife with slurs.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Long hours, longer lines, nonstop bidding wars, and letters penned by pets. Stories from the real estate bonanza.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Jennifer Bridges says she isn’t anti-vax, but she's now a cause célèbre among skeptics for threatening to sue her employer for requiring employees get the jab.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
As vaccination rollout in their country has been slow, wealthy Mexicans have spent thousands on expensive trips abroad to get inoculated.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In Houston’s Third Ward, where some residents’ homes were extensively damaged, a fight for repairs has reached a breaking point.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Luke Coffee, a director and actor who appeared on NBC’s ‘Friday Night Lights,’ found QAnon during the pandemic and then spent a month trying to evade the consequences of the path it led him down.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The birds have been waddling around the Copper Grove neighborhood for years, but now some residents are crying fowl.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
A list of some of those from the Lone Star State who gathered in Washington, D.C., on January 6.
Sierra Juarez is a fact-checker at Texas Monthly.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The retailer sits 200 yards from Deaf Smith County’s largest hospital. Local officials and public health experts worry that the store isn’t enforcing safety precautions.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
With Trump ramping up efforts to construct the border wall, South Texans say the effort has been stripped to its essence: “It’s basically just big government taking Texas land.”
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The COVID Community Court has helped enforce social distancing and wearing of masks. But some undergrads say the feeling of being watched has become another cost of the pandemic.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Follow writer Peter Holley as he explores some of the city's traditional-medicine and faith-healing establishments.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The county’s decision to open eight locations for round-the-clock early voting drew workers too busy to vote during the day—and others eager to send a message about voter suppression.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
In his new teaching role at the University of Houston, the straight-talking music mogul promises students a primer on success and celebrity.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
His friends, both Black and white, confront the reality of police brutality in their quiet hometown.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
The Dallas salon owner who rose to fame for defying shutdown orders is still campaigning to “reopen” Texas.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
As COVID-19 spreads, some Hispanic San Antonians are relying on sage, psychics, and prayer.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.
Terence O'Rourke has spent a decade warning officials that a storm making landfall directly in Galveston Bay could be much worse than even Harvey.
Peter Holley is a staff writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas.