A redistricting expert discusses Tom Delay, ‘dummymanders,’ and the long history of racial gerrymandering in the state.

There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested ...

If approved, opponents warn that a massive new utility project could disrupt toxic sediment, and more, in Lake ...

The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a potentially ...

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem, but in just two counties so far.

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

Religion How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon ...

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Aditya Panangat is a Texas-based machine learning researcher focused on the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.