Emmy-nominated producer. She is the Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellow in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she is pursuing her MFA. Her poetry has appeared in Mom ...

DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.

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A Third Future Schools-Texas elementary school in Midland has been accused of neglecting social studies and physical education.

Come Wednesday, Moises Mendoza is scheduled to be the third person executed by the State of Texas this year. The 41-year-old has spent half of his life on death row. In 2005, Mendoza was convicted ...

Dallas. His work has appeared most recently in the Tampa Review and X-R-A-Y.

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The Judicial Fairness PAC pumped millions of dollars into an effort laser-focused on ousting Dems from appellate courts from Houston to Dallas.

Democratic politicians and reformers say the donation shows a major loophole in campaign finance law.

Five years after being exonerated from prison, I met the man who actually did the crime.

The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.