The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.

Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.

Too many U.S. workers still suffer and die from exposure to well-known toxic substances, a Texas investigative reporter’s new book says.

Civil rights complaint alleges biracial child faced two years of racially motivated attacks.

Record levels of forced migration are tied to an environmental collapse that Republicans worsened on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

The increase reverses a 15-year trend. And unwanted pregnancies will rise, researchers predict.

Senate Bill 4 could be the vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally unleash Lone Star Republicans on the world’s huddled masses.

These dropoff sites for free food appeared across the U.S. during the pandemic, reducing waste and methane emissions in the process.

A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.

GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.

In Jesse Friedin’s photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.

In tragedy’s wake, a fiery movement for justice emerges in a South Texas town that’s known an uprising before.

Reservoirs in the Rio Grande Valley are running dry—sparking emergency water conservation measures.

In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.

Republican attorneys general, including Ken Paxton, have filed suit over a federal school lunch program that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ children.

Martha Menchaca’s new book examines events that have shaped the lives of so many in the Lone Star State.

“We are seeing massive ripple effects across the country for other states taking on displaced patients.”

For women inside prison, the fight for survival is less physical than psychological.

lon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.

A new book from UT Austin research professor Raj Patel and UC San Francisco physician Rupa Marya argues that our bodies, our society, and our planet are inflamed.