The five-term Austin state representative will wage an underdog campaign to deny the powerful Texas governor an unprecedented ...

The Satanic Panic ruined reputations and led to years of mistrust. Today’s Rainbow Panic risks dehumanizing our neighbors and ...

An Austin literary shop has branched out into loud concerts, cementing a place in the city’s DIY music scene. Photos, ...

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of ...

Set to be the first U.S. person executed based on the controversial “Shaken Baby Syndrome” diagnosis, Roberson told the ...

Her mother had been in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid. Now, the state wanted its money back: “It was like wild animals ...

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As the healthcare workers approach the small collection of makeshift shelters along the train tracks that cut through the ...

Arman Deendar is a writer from Dallas and is currently an editorial intern at In These Times. At a vigil outside city hall ...

The five-term Austin state representative will wage an underdog campaign to deny the powerful Texas governor an unprecedented fourth term—and the chance to further entrench his “corruption.” ...

Inside one woman's fight against Texas' Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.

Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says ...