The Texas GOP Has a Plan to Make Part of New Mexico New Texas
Last week, the Texas House of Representatives published the interim committee charges for the Eighty-Ninth Legislative Session, and there was a surprising item in the 53-page document: The Select Comm...
The Frontier Thesis of Texas Culture
Even from outside you could smell the artiness. Standing under the marquee of the Inwood Theatre, in Dallas, waiting to buy a ticket, you’d see the door open and be hit with the unmistakable combina...
Roar of the Crowd: April 2026
Ambiguous and Misguided or Appropriate and Meticulous?In “A&M’s Melting Point,” the cover story of our February 2026 issue, contributing writer Christopher Hooks investigated the causes and cons...
This Crane Operator Has the (Literal) Highest Office in Texas
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. I was born in Germany. My dad was in the U.S. Army, so we moved around a lot, including to McAllen, briefly, when I was six ye...
The Great Texas Treasure Hunt
The town of Comanche straddles U.S. 67 on a flat, featureless stretch of a region variously known as the Western Cross Timbers, the Osage Plains, or simply the Big Country. Founded in 1858, in its ear...