A Good Guy With a Gun vs. the National Rifle Association
A firearm-owning ER doctor who treats shooting victims in Houston argues, in a new book, for targeted reforms to help relieve our epidemic of weapon-related deaths.
A firearm-owning ER doctor who treats shooting victims in Houston argues, in a new book, for targeted reforms to help relieve our epidemic of weapon-related deaths.
Conspiracists on the right declare that we will soon be forced to consume insects. A lab at Texas A&M University is part of a coalition researching whether that’s viable.
The long-serving Houston congresswoman died in July. Her replacement will be chosen not by voters but by a group of low-level party activists.
In separate complaints, two women say Texas hospitals violated EMTALA, a federal statute that requires them to provide stabilizing care.
Legislators have filed more bills that challenge long-established legal precedents, in hopes that right-wing federal courts will overthrow them.
When state leaders took over Houston Independent School District, they wanted a superintendent who could withstand criticism. The man they hired has provoked it.
Were the leases unfairly awarded because of an unspecified personal connection between the utility’s leader and a Life Cycle Power employee?
After a contentious primary for the district attorney's seat, some local liberals are fighting over the party's direction.
The chronic disease runs up hundreds of billions in health-care costs each year, yet only a fraction of patients have access to the highly effective new generation of drugs.
Republican leaders were prepared to deal with an aging and unexciting candidate. Harris’s incursion has them fumbling through a grab bag of defenses.
Following President Joe Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, some state GOP leaders and activists are circulating conspiracy theories of a sneaky coup by Barack Obama and are voicing racist attacks on the vice president.
In the Permian Basin, cryptocurrency enthusiasts are setting up huge data centers. Most locals are welcoming, but many are confused.
Hotelier Monty Bennett is trying to get a Collin County school board to adopt a scheme that would let students across the state attend private academies on the taxpayer’s dime.
The longtime representative from Austin was the first sitting Democrat in Congress to call for Joe Biden to step down.
As our population booms, Texas grows hotter and drier. How might we stop the squandering of our dwindling water supply?
Overdevelopment, and the rules that encourage it, could literally sink communities such as Katy, where the land is subsiding.
Some utilities charge higher prices at higher thresholds of use, but their ability to jack up rates is limited. The Legislature could change that.
If the state fixed all the broken and decaying infrastructure, it might save enough H2O to serve the needs of several major cities.
The two major parties have until August 26 to submit the names of their presidential candidates for the Texas ballot.
Donald Trump's national party is diverging in key ways from Republicans in our state, but our leaders can still be counted on to spread lies about the crime rate, and the voting rate, among undocumented migrants.
As they wait for CenterPoint to restore electricity, residents in Kingwood, which has suffered twelve days of outages, say hope is waning.
In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick have doubled down on their long-standing neglect and mistreatment of the state's largest city.
Drawing on biblical concepts, Texas politicians reacted to the shooting by saying the former president is chosen to rule.
Former President Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania when a series of loud bangs were heard. He was whisked off stage.
A revision of the upper chamber’s employee policy was supposed to address misconduct exposed by the #MeToo movement. In practice, it protects the institution, not the women who work there.
LBJ, in one of his final public appearances, offered humility and hope. The current president’s upcoming speech in Austin may offer a striking contrast.
The representative from Austin on Tuesday implored the president to make way for new leadership. Biden is meeting with Democratic governors on Wednesday as he considers his options.
The technology that makes indoors comfortable is helping make the outdoors less so. But can we survive without it?
As Democrats debate whether Joe Biden should stay in the race against Trump, LBJ’s often misunderstood example looms.
State District Court Judge Francisco X. Dominguez wrote, in part, that the attorney general’s shuttering of Annunciation House would be a breach of the group’s religious liberty.
We take a glimpse into the multiverse, where Kinky Friedman won his 2006 gubernatorial bid.
At two seminars sponsored by the True Texas Project after Daniel Perry’s pardon, gun owners were fearful their right to self-defense could be threatened by liberal district attorneys.
The president’s struggles in last night’s debate with Donald Trump were foreshadowed five years ago by an attack launched by the former San Antonio mayor.
An ascendant faction of the GOP wants to make the party smaller and purer while keeping Democrats from power by any means necessary.
Allen West Watch: The former Texas GOP chairman was known to rock the boat, and in doing so may have edged the state party further right. These days, he’s picking a losing battle with ballots in blue Dallas County.
Testing of smokable hemp at eight dispensaries around the state found that all were selling cannabis with potent levels of the psychoactive compound THC.
Senior editor Alex Samuels examines which non-Texans are making the biggest election contributions. And more importantly—what do they want?
The anti-vaxxers who went viral in 2020 are back with an offering taking on the New World Order through the power of song.
The now-overturned ban on the device was championed by a Texas politician. But gun control is only politically expedient for a short while.
High temperatures and the heat dome came early this year—part of our new climate change reality.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in favor of Michael Cargill, ending a federal prohibition dating from the early days of the Trump administration.
A small-town Texas church paid lawyer fees to Jonathan Mitchell, architect of Texas's abortion bounty law. But does the church even exist?
A case originating in Amarillo challenged the legal status of mifepristone. The nation's highest court preserved access to the abortion pill in a ruling today.
As his bankruptcy takes a turn, Alex Jones has agreed to sell the brand that both made him famous and cost him everything.
Dallas mayor Eric Johnson shocked his city when he became a Republican last year. And he’s not backing down.
Texas Democrats only need to flip three seats to potentially block the governor’s biggest policy priority, but their long record of losing suggests doing so will be a challenge.
The former president on Thursday was found guilty on all counts in the trial over hush-money payments to hide an affair with an adult film star. Naturally, right-wing leaders in the state came to his defense.
Conservative Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan narrowly beat a far-right challenger—and liberals appear to have pushed him to victory.
The embattled Republican speaker of the Texas House faced down a Trump-backed opponent, but his allies were routed this primary season.
At its annual convention, the state GOP elected a new chair and reaffirmed it has no interest in moderating itself.