Texas history is more than just history. It’s filled with myth— and amnesia—that provides a permission structure which fuels conservative politics. It also has a powerful influence on the nation as a ...

The confluence of settlement, immigration and detention illustrates the complex issues that are in the headlines and in our identity. In the books We were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaki...

At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers braced for the impact of President Trump's mass deportation plan.

Last week conjunto music legend Flaco Jiménez was hospitalized with what friends and colleagues called a “minor health concern.” They said the 85-year-old is in good spirits. Over the course of his se...

Today on Texas Matters—Can a progressive agenda pass in the conservative Texas legislature? We hear the legislative plan for the Sierra Club, The AFL-CIO and Move Texas.

Robbery, kidnapping, extortion, rape and murder— that’s what migrants face on their journey north. Jason De León spent years interviewing human smugglers in Mexico and Central America. De León argues ...

Here are the benchmarks for how the country is doing as he begins his second term.

They say Republicans can’t assume that they will always support GOP candidates, though. They’re waiting to see whether Trump keeps his promises.

Born on the dance floor in the 1970s amidst the shadow of post-Nixon America and a bruising recession, Disco offered an escape from American disillusionment and economic hardship. Disco celebrated inc...

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President-elect Trump is promising that on day one of his new term he will sign an executive order that will end birthright citizenship—which has been a part of the Constitution since 1868. How could ...

Ban all THC from Texas—that’s what Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants this coming legislative session.Patrick says since 2023, thousands of stores selling THC products popped up across the state, and many of ...

Texas women are paying the price for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. More stories are coming to light of Texas women dying from treatable crisis pregnancies. Meanwhile the state’s Maternal Mortality t...

Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 — also known as the Dobbs decision — and the 2021 Texas ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, a growi...

Richard Coke, the 15th governor of Texas, is a pivotal and controversial figure in post-Civil War Texas. Rosser Newton has written a book about his ancestor called “Richard Coke: Texan.”

The overtime rule is one of the most far-reaching economic reforms that President Joe Biden has fought for.

Four people, aged between 26 and 32, tragically lost their lives in Toronto when their Tesla crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. Unfortunately, a malfunction prevented the car doors from open...

Today on Texas Matters: Stories about helping asylum seekers from the Interfaith Welcome Coalition and their book "Traveling Mercies."And one Texas death row inmate—who could be innocent—is closer to ...

Election night has become an American tradition. How newspapers in the 1800s, radio stations in the 1920s, and television in the 1950s created the spectacle of counting and adding that it is today.