Emily McCullar on hunting's place in her life, plus a tour through her glossary of hunting terms.
Behind the Lines
Leif Reigstad talks about his latest feature for Texas Monthly, about the killing of Buck Birdsong's calves.
Texas Monthly's executive editor talks about his August feature tracing Schlitterbahn’s decades-long rise to its current perilous position.
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.
Public school parents with special-ed kids often find themselves squaring off against school districts and the taxpayer-funded lawyers who protect them.
As a new legislative session begins, can lawmakers come together to help the abused and neglected kids in foster care?
After Trump’s stunning win, Texas’s Republican leaders still face a critical choice.
With protectionism sweeping the nation, let’s recall why NAFTA has been so good for Texas.
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?
Too many Texas schools are failing, yet our elected officials would rather discuss who’s using which toilet.
They are successful, visionary, and humble. If only we could say the same for our presidential candidates.
Texas’s recent primary season offers a blueprint for how the Republican party could reform itself in the post-Trump era.
Texas politics is starting to look a lot like national politics. And that’s not good for the state.
Houston greets its new mayor, Sylvester Turner, with a host of big-city problems.
The scandal isn’t Ken Paxton’s alleged crimes. It’s that he was elected in the first place.
Pamela Colloff writes about the first prosecutor to be disbarred under a new law in Texas.
Paul Burka bids farewell to Texas Monthly—and wonders what happened to the Texas he once knew.
Skip Hollandsworth drills into the surprising (and not so surprising) fortunes of Denton’s anti-fracking ballot measure.