It’s on the agenda at the Texas Capitol, but advocates worry heavy-handed ‘accountability’ will remain intact.

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Texas Dem quorum-breakers are seeking to protect voter rights nationwide, but they’re likely engaged in little more than a ...

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A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential ...

Texas writer and director Katherine Craft's Audible comedy depicts a musician's tumultuous return to Plano as she adjusts to ...

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Reviews The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

A sharp-eyed retiree uncovered evidence of judicial misconduct by the chief judge of Houston’s busy bankruptcy court. The unusual story highlights how other complaints against judges go ignored.