The Texas Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border ...

Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes ...

As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

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If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production.

Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.

Sitting in a Brazoria County courtroom in 1994, Anthony Graves, a Black man, looked at his nearly all-white jury. He was on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and the state was seeking the death ...

Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. She is a scholar of digital religion and Islamophobia.

Democrats haven’t won a U.S. Senate race in Texas for more than 35 years. In 2018, Beto O’Rourke came the closest when he lost to Ted Cruz by only 2.6 percentage points. In 2024, Cruz, boosted by ...