The Texas Majority PAC is the latest deep-pocketed initiative meant to turn Texas blue. But have its dollars just brought ...

When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle ...

Set to be the first U.S. person executed based on the controversial “Shaken Baby Syndrome” diagnosis, Roberson told the ...

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of ...

A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in ...

Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says ...

Her mother had been in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid. Now, the state wanted its money back: “It was like wild animals ...

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Julie Poole is an independent journalist based in Austin. She writes about healthcare, housing, and reproductive rights.

Sam Judy is an investigative journalist with a background in criminal justice and civil rights reporting. His previous work ...

In response to last spring’s student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that roiled college campuses across the country, including in Texas, the state’s Republican Legislature passed a law this ...