Twenty-five prospective legislators have signed a pledge to block Democrats—who now hold 43 percent of the seats—from all influence in the lower chamber and neuter the next Speaker.
We’re already dealing with high prices, high mortgage rates, and high property taxes. Now the state faces a new crisis.
For weeks now, motorists have puzzled over a billboard advertising a senior citizen’s desire to find love in—and relocate to—tiny Sweetwater, Texas. Is it a sincere bid for companionship or an elaborate hoax? Texas Monthly investigates.
A controversial new law allows chaplains to replace school counselors. School districts—and campus ministries—across the state are largely unfazed.
Cases of the once rare disease are on the rise, crippling and killing infants. A new program hopes to prevent and treat the condition among those who are most vulnerable.
The bankrupt Infowars host is the latest colorful character to stake out a place in the desert outpost of Terlingua.
Assuming you own a pipeline, that is. The region is wrestling with a glut of the fuel.
Nicholas Suntzeff doubts the latest round of conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. But he hasn’t given up on finding neighbors in the universe.
A new book by a UNT historian argues that American medicine overlooks how the ailments of many Black Americans are influenced by the diets of their African forebears.
An Indigenous man couldn’t understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. He was sentenced anyway.
Carlos Alvarez, who died this week at 73, made a fortune bringing Corona to the U.S. and reviving Shiner Bock. Then, from his base in San Antonio, he cheerfully gave much of that fortune away.
The risk of the avian influenza sparking a pandemic remains low, but viruses evolve, and experts urge vigilance.
Everyone hates dealing with airport security. Ted Cruz has a solution that would benefit Ted Cruz and very few others.
The tough-talking former state senator loves cars, firefighters, and police. Critics say he’s taking the city backward.
The border town won’t let the immigration debate eclipse its eclipse plans.
The think tank convinced the state comptroller that it should be exempt from paying taxes on its lavish headquarters because it conducts “scholarly scientific research.”
Texas’s junior senator is courting a somewhat novel constituency for someone so active as a culture warrior.
An exclusive excerpt from ‘City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.’
Texas’s junior senator and senior podcaster enjoys an unconventional sort of remuneration for his “unpaid” work.
After nine years of pursuing criminal fraud charges against the Texas attorney general, prosecutors now say that their case was weak.
Inspired in part by his son, Bryan Shaw is leading a team that's reenvisioning the college chemistry lab.
The area west of Austin and San Antonio will be one of the most popular destinations in America for witnessing the historic phenomenon. Given its rural nature, it also could face the most challenges.
Party officials in several counties have adopted resolutions against the grocery store magnate for a litany of alleged offenses against the state Republican platform.
As the high-profile capital murder case is appealed in the courts, one woman who sentenced Reed to death tells all about the trial.
Matt Rinaldi has led the state Republican Party far to the right. His successor is likely to keep driving in that direction.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about whether to allow back into effect a law allowing state and local authorities to deport migrants.
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing Senate Bill 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
A brief and highly selective look at what just happened, from a pair of primates comforting a woman to a quintet of musicians getting pranked.
Glenn Rogers ran afoul of Governor Greg Abbott and billionaire oilmen Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. It cost him his job.
After the active duty airman self-immolated as an act of protest against the violence in Gaza, friends of Bushnell from the San Antonio church he attended remember someone who “loved hard and loved quickly.”
Dallas Love Field has been transformed into an aviation battleground again, as American and Southwest lobby the Federal Aviation Administration to change the rules that allowed the newcomer to take off.
The aviation battle underway at Love Field has echoes of the pivotal fight over the launch of Legend Airlines.
In a post-election interview, Travis Clardy calls his defeat a slap in the face for rural districts with few alternatives to public schools.
A Houston-area priest is part of a group of religious leaders and media figures who draw followers interested in conspiracy theories and authoritarian government.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don't make it are often never identified.
The GOP primary has yanked the lower chamber, once again, to the right—a huge victory for Greg Abbott and lieutenant governor Dan Patrick.
On the rolling hills outside Canadian, Texas, where cattle herds were decimated and fertile ranchland has been reduced to a charred wasteland, some things are too painful to discuss.
Billionaires here are funding right-wing politicians to knock down barriers between church and state. But a small countermovement is now rising to meet them.
Joyce Slocum, who died Sunday, built TPR into a national model for independent local and collaborative journalism. She was also one hell of a friend.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden cruised to victory, the Democrats chose Colin Allred to challenge Ted Cruz, and Dade Phelan is heading to a runoff.
The river’s spikes in salinity are killing crops in the Rio Grande Valley. Finding a solution will require negotiations between Texas and Mexico policymakers.
The primary is where most everything is decided in Texas, but early voting turnout has been abysmal, particularly among Democrats.
The Speaker governs as an old-school conservative—a crime for which right-wing Republicans are determined to banish him.
Droughts, arctic blasts, heat waves—senior editor Alex Samuels explains what the future holds for the state's notoriously chaotic climate.
The attorney general and the senator have beef. For now, it’s confined to social media.
Kim Ogg ran on a platform of bail reform to become district attorney of Harris County, home of Houston. Now those who championed her rise are trying to unseat her.
After the 2020 election, Heider Garcia received death threats. Instead of backing down, he reached out to conspiracy theorists—and won many of them over.
The Texas Blockchain Council aims to stop a new federal requirement that its members disclose how much electricity they’re pulling from the grid.
The Texas governor should be reeling from a humiliating defeat on his biggest policy priority. Instead, he’s at the height of his power.
The Texas congressman’s party-defying votes have earned him four right-wing challengers who say the race is America’s last stand.