As License Plate Readers Expand in Texas, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back
Last week the City of Kyle, a fast-growing Austin suburb, interrupted a string of recent victories w ...View More
What Does the Allred-Johnson Runoff Tell Us About Texas Dems?
Eight years before their heated congressional runoff, Colin Allred and Julie Johnson both rode into ...View More
Texas’ Top Criminal Court Has Stymied the State’s ‘Junk Science’ Law. Will SCOTUS Intervene?
In 1999, a Dallas County jury sentenced Charles Flores to death for capital murder after a burglary ...View More
Trump’s New Tool to Speed Up Wall Construction May Be a Trap for Texas Landowners
As President Donald Trump’s second administration rushes to wall off the Texas border, landowners al ...View More
LATE SPRING ENDING WITH LUNAR ECLIPSE
Fine thread nearly invisible in the early lightkept getting caught again and again in our mouths.We ...View More
A Looming Execution Raises Questions of Race, Responsibility, and Rap
Curtis Riser had some concerns about the problem of wrongful convictions. He wasn’t the only potenti ...View More
When the AI Cloud Comes for Texas Water
“What’s in the water?” state Representative Erin Zwiener asked when talking to the developers of a p ...View More
Making Coffee with a Candle—and Other Notes from a Cuba Gone Dark
My grandmother sent me a photo last week. In it, a white candle burns inside a metal bucket. Bal ...View More
As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Texas Starbucks Workers Have Learned the Power of Organizing
Victoria Hernandez, 23, was brought into work at the Blanco Road San Antonio Starbucks location in A ...View More
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