The alleged bribery and abuse of office in Ken Paxton's impeachment trial. Plus: Big-time lawyers! Billionaire donors! Burner phones! | Continue reading
During the thirtieth anniversary of the Branch Davidian tragedy, no less. | Continue reading
How a San Antonio restaurant manager pioneered the art of taco diplomacy. | Continue reading
The National Magazine Award–winning story about Michael Morton, a man who came home from work one day in 1986 to find that his wife had been brutally murdered. What happened next was one of the most profound miscarriages of justice in Texas history. | Continue reading
The trial to determine Infowars’ damages for defaming Sandy Hook parents could have had huge free-speech implications. Because of Jones’s choices, it won’t. | Continue reading
Homeowners in hot housing markets got a nasty surprise when their appraisals arrived this spring. Here’s what happened when some tried to get reductions. | Continue reading
‘After the Revolution’ is the latest work of speculative fiction drawing on our real-life deadly climate, big money, sinister villains, and true believers. | Continue reading
The Texas gambler has been winning at poker for seventy years—long enough to become an icon and watch an outlaw’s game become an industry. | Continue reading
After an abandoned well began spewing toxic water onto her land, Ashley Watt would stop at nothing to determine the cause—and to hold Chevron accountable. | Continue reading
CEO Jim Schwertner credits the persistent success of Capitol Land & Livestock to a data-driven algorithm. | Continue reading
The Russian-funded network may have folded, but Texas native Rachel Blevins is still propagandizing for Putin. | Continue reading
A Pecos County well has leaked noxious salt water for almost two decades. No one is taking responsibility for getting it cleaned up. | Continue reading
Twenty years have passed since the notoriously corrupt energy-trading company collapsed. Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that it wasn’t all bad for Texas. | Continue reading
The record influx of recent arrivals from all over might be exactly what the state needs. That includes Californians. (And no, they’re not turning Texas blue.) | Continue reading
Origin Systems founder Richard Garriott has sometimes lived his life like a computer game, but now that the multimedia industry is changing, he can’t play around anymore. | Continue reading
Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse. | Continue reading
The deputy U.S. marshal's almost superhuman exploits made him one of the West's most feared lawmen. | Continue reading
The ancient art of falconry is alive and well. | Continue reading
The Houston-based website makes use of blockchain technology—and an element of surprise—to attract a sizable new audience for computer-generated works. | Continue reading
Tesla has filed to become a Texas power retailer in a move that could shake up an already fast-changing market. | Continue reading
Some of the healthiest coral communities in the world beckon off the Texas coast. Can unlikely allies save this undersea paradise? | Continue reading
Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book says social scientists must acknowledge how DNA shapes our lives. Critics call that dangerous. | Continue reading
Can we save our beloved ant-eating, blood-spurting, quickly disappearing state reptile? | Continue reading
Motels were once a reliable respite for budget-conscious road warriors or transitory locals, but today's motel owners are seeking a younger generation of travelers who have more cash to spend. | Continue reading
But twelve months of renovations and a few burst water pipes later, our dream came true. | Continue reading
“Ladders and walls go together like peas and carrots,” says one McAllen Border Patrol agent. | Continue reading
Thirty years ago, Ralph Hayles fired the missiles that killed two American soldiers in Iraq. Ever since, he has worked to develop technology that could prevent similar deaths, while the military has looked elsewhere to address the problem—with little success. | Continue reading
Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them. | Continue reading
Public Utility Commission chairman Arthur D’Andrea apologized to Bank of America last week for the “uncertainty” around its profits. | Continue reading
May you make direct eye contact with your neighbor during your yard pee. | Continue reading
In 1963, Lackland Air Force Base experienced a cataclysmic explosion. People thought World War III had started. Today, it's been almost completely forgotten. | Continue reading
Siena, Italy crams 30,000 people into the same space occupied by a five-stack interchange in the Bayou City. | Continue reading
Terence O'Rourke has spent a decade warning officials a storm making landfall directly in Galveston Bay could be much worse than even Harvey. | Continue reading
Theodore Robert Wright III carried out one of the boldest insurance fraud schemes Texas has ever seen. That was only the half of it. | Continue reading
When her former student was found wandering the highway a decade after she'd last seen him, Michell Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she set off to give him more, including the Christmas he’d never had. | Continue reading
Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas” | Continue reading
They thought they’d be treating heat exhaustion this weekend. Then police started firing rubber bullets and bean bag rounds. | Continue reading
With support from the Legislature, SpaceX may soon be launching rockets from Texas’ southernmost beach. That doesn’t mean a few nature lovers aren’t still ready to fight. | Continue reading
Texans are about to pay the price for living in the beef state. | Continue reading
The plan deviates considerably from what many public health officials say is needed for Texans to reopen businesses. | Continue reading
The restaurateur on pandemics, mass furloughs, and why he’s not selling his yachts. | Continue reading
Social distancing mandates have been instituted to slow the pandemic’s spread—a necessity that also coincides with a loneliness epidemic. | Continue reading
The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.) | Continue reading
The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.) | Continue reading
When the 85-year-old matriarch of a prominent pecan-farming clan in San Saba was murdered, her death shook the town—and exposed how obsession and greed can fell a family from within. | Continue reading
Coming soon to a Texas highway near you: self-driving semis. | Continue reading
A new report finds that, when transportation costs are factored in, Texas’s biggest metros aren’t the bargain they often claim to be. | Continue reading
A homing pigeon will return to the place where it first learned to fly, no matter how many hundreds of miles it takes to get there. | Continue reading