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Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to ...

The special election in Senate District 9 pits “people power” against mountains of conservative cash and the rising influence ...

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At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious and non-religious alike. The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating ...

For months, locals and landowners have tried to stop the Permian Highway Pipeline, a piece of infrastructure connecting West Texas’ prolific oil fields to the state’s Gulf Coast refineries. But ...

Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state ...

A version of this story ran in the February 2013 issue. This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of ...

From the looks of them, it’s hard to imagine that the smooth pimpleback, the Texas fawnsfoot or the Texas fatmucket could threaten the Texas economy. Found at the bottom of rivers, these inconspicuous ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2019 issue. In 2012, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was facing an ascendant tea party faction and was leery of political insurrection.

A version of this story ran in the July 2015 issue. In the summer of 2013, a team of forensic anthropologists from Baylor University and the University of Indianapolis descended upon Sacred Heart ...