Outdoors
September 21, 2018
Behind the Lines: How to Hunt Like a Texan (and Talk Like One Too)
Emily McCullar on hunting's place in her life, plus a tour through her glossary of hunting terms.
Behind the Lines
The Stand Up Desk
August 24, 2018
Behind the Lines: An Unsolved Cattle-Murder Mystery in East Texas
Leif Reigstad talks about his latest feature for Texas Monthly, about the killing of Buck Birdsong's calves.
The Stand Up Desk
July 20, 2018
Behind the Lines: Skip Hollandsworth and Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
Texas Monthly's executive editor talks about his August feature tracing Schlitterbahn’s decades-long rise to its current perilous position.
The Stand Up Desk
April 19, 2018
Behind the Lines: Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth on ‘The Sting’
Listen to the first episode of our new series, which takes you into the minds of some of Texas Monthly's great writers and editors.
Politics & Policy
February 23, 2017
Not So Special Ed
Public school parents with special-ed kids often find themselves squaring off against school districts and the taxpayer-funded lawyers who protect them.
Business
January 25, 2017
Towering Debts
in a state known for austerity, how can Texas's largest cities be nearly broke?…
Politics & Policy
December 14, 2016
Capitol Crisis
As a new legislative session begins, can lawmakers come together to help the abused and neglected kids in foster care?…
Politics & Policy
November 17, 2016
Where Do We Go From Here?
After Trump’s stunning win, Texas’s Republican leaders still face a critical choice.
Politics & Policy
October 19, 2016
Right Aid
Despite the governor’s rhetoric, welcoming refugees is the Texas thing to do.
Politics & Policy
September 21, 2016
Trumpeting Trade
With protectionism sweeping the nation, let’s recall why NAFTA has been so good for Texas.
Behind the Lines
August 18, 2016
A Different Beat
On the heels of tragedy, community policing in Dallas remains as valuable as ever.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 2016
Memorial Day
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?…
Politics & Policy
June 22, 2016
Bathroom Pass
Too many Texas schools are failing, yet our elected officials would rather discuss who’s using which toilet.
Politics & Policy
May 13, 2016
Spurs of the Moment
They are successful, visionary, and humble. If only we could say the same for our presidential candidates.
Politics & Policy
April 11, 2016
Round the Bend
Texas’s recent primary season offers a blueprint for how the Republican party could reform itself in the post-Trump era.
Politics & Policy
March 23, 2016
Shop Talk
Mimi Swartz discovers the Texas she remembers in a small cafe in Cisco.
Politics & Policy
February 24, 2016
National State of Mind
Texas politics is starting to look a lot like national politics. And that’s not good for the state.
Politics & Policy
January 27, 2016
Hail to the Chief?
Houston greets its new mayor, Sylvester Turner, with a host of big-city problems.
Politics & Policy
November 10, 2015
The Ted Offensive
Our junior senator is rising in the polls, but what is his real message?…
The Culture
October 21, 2015
Time of Fear
What the story of Ahmed Mohamed and his clock tells us about our culture of hysteria.
Politics & Policy
September 8, 2015
Stinging Indictment
The scandal isn’t Ken Paxton’s alleged crimes. It’s that he was elected in the first place.
Politics & Policy
August 10, 2015
Crossing the Line
The hard truth behind police misconduct in Prairie View and McKinney.
Behind the Lines
July 23, 2015
Time and Punishment
Pamela Colloff writes about the first prosecutor to be disbarred under a new law in Texas.
The Culture
June 16, 2015
Gang Land
After the deadly shoot-out in Waco, what do the Bandidos want? To be left alone.
Politics & Policy
March 23, 2015
What I’ve Learned
Paul Burka bids farewell to Texas Monthly—and wonders what happened to the Texas he once knew. …
Politics & Policy
February 12, 2015
Torn on the Bayou
Mimi Swartz on what Houston’s fractious mayoral race says about the city.
Politics & Policy
December 15, 2014
Tilting at Gas Wells
Skip Hollandsworth drills into the surprising (and not so surprising) fortunes of Denton’s anti-fracking ballot measure. …
The Stand Up Desk
January 20, 2013
Behind the Lines
TALK OF CHANGE AND REFORM has been in the air since the Sharpstown scandals more than perhaps at any time in our state’s history. Such talk is welcome, and, as most of us apparently felt in the last elections, mandatory. One imagines that talk of reform came as uncomfortably, but…
The Stand Up Desk
April 30, 1974
Behind the Lines
On a warm March morning we went looking for the grave of my great-great-grandmother Nancy Daugherty. My mother had visited the grave more than 40 years before, and remembered only that it was near the capitol and that a small iron fence encircled the plot. We found the grave amid…
Politics & Policy
March 31, 1974
Behind the Lines
We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the cities…
The Stand Up Desk
February 28, 1974
Behind the Lines
Writing about Larry L. King is a difficult task that leaves me feeling like some sweating country jeweler stooped over a fine stone trying to fashion an appropriate setting out of tin. Some good writers have craft; others have soul and spirit. Larry has what great writers have: he has…
The Stand Up Desk
January 1, 1974
Behind the Lines
INMATES OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT of Corrections have made 181 new desks for about $34 a desk. Rockford Furniture Associates of Austin has fashioned matching chairs for $180 a chair. A new electronic voting board has been installed for $33,500 ($200 more than the total cost for the chairs). These…
The Stand Up Desk
April 1, 1973
Behind the Lines
WE TEXANS TALK A LOT about how big we are, and how we are getting bigger. This is all right, since it is true. We are the only state with more than one of the ten largest cities in the country. In fact, we have three—Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.