The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause ...
A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal ...
Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to ...
The special election in Senate District 9 pits “people power” against mountains of conservative cash and the rising influence ...
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At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious and non-religious alike. The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating ...
A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal homelessness policy.
For months, locals and landowners have tried to stop the Permian Highway Pipeline, a piece of infrastructure connecting West Texas’ prolific oil fields to the state’s Gulf Coast refineries. But ...
A version of this story ran in the May / June 2022 issue. The moment seemed to call for drastic action. Lucille Contreras’ youngest son was on his own, ranching buffalo on the Pine Ridge Lakota ...