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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Damla Karsan lives in fear for her patients—and for all pregnant Texans. The Houston OB-GYN has spent the last four years painfully navigating the state’s draconian abortion bans, oftentimes for ...