Deaths Uncovered in Laredo Show the Ongoing Toll of Border Militarization
Four years ago, after authorities in San Antonio found 53 immigrants dead in a trailer in San Antoni ...View More
Texas Has a Water Shortage and a Water Glut. They’re the Same Problem.
Texas does not have enough water. Texas also cannot get rid of the water it has. Both of those thing ...View More
A Queer Texan Retraces Steinbeck’s 10,000-mile trip
John Steinbeck was already suffering serious heart trouble when, in 1960, he and his dog clambered i ...View More
A Mirror and a Portal
From deep within I heard: “not a woman.” The desert stretched out in front of me as I drove. For ...View More
From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas
In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched u ...View More
Betty Simmons, a Texan in Slavery’s Last Years
In 1863, Betty Simmons was about 20 years old, and her 3-year-old son, Charlie, would soon be made t ...View More
In Laredo’s Last Stand Against Trump’s Border Wall, Are City Leaders Making a Deal with the Devil?
Early this year, a delegation of officials from the City of Laredo traveled to Washington, D.C., to ...View More
As World Cup Unfolds, Immigrant Rights Organizers Seek a Reckoning over Dallas’ Relationship with ICE
As thousands of visitors from around the country pour into Dallas for the opening matches of the 202 ...View More
Texas’ Fight Against the Screwworm Will Be Nasty and Brutish
After spending four decades in exile south of the Rio Grande, the New World screwworm has finally wr ...View More
The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’
Ernesto Gonzales liked to hold court in the morning from a corner booth of El Rancho in Harlingen, a ...View More
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