NEW from me: The most important man in Texas government is retiring. Steve McCraw's 15-year run as DPS director proves that being politically useful to governors means you never have to say you're sorry. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Been waiting to binge all 10 episodes of my #truecrime pod The Unforgotten? Well, now's the time! I'm proud of our work to right a 30-year wrong — and maybe, just maybe, to help solve a murder. Listen on Apple Podcasts

Here's the thing: Churchill was a huge fuck up, screw ball and all round villain who was wrong about just about everything: wrong about World War I, wrong about Gallipoli (a major disaster of his making, wrong about Ireland, wrong about India, wrong about the gold standard, wrong

After Mayor Whitmire accused pro-Palestinian organizers of ‘being paid by Iran,’ City of Houston says it has no documentation to back up his claim houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

Donald Trump on Mark Robinson at CPAC Dallas in 2022

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Tonight, my journalism students are walking around campus interviewing students about their thoughts ahead of the election. I’m walking around observing them, and many have mentioned that students refuse to share their name, year or any identifying and information. Trust in the

.POLITICO Playbook has pic of Secretary Janet Yellen ordering a Whataburger® near the Austin airport. It is officially @texastribune Festival week #txlege

Every odd-numbered year for the last twenty, Texas Republicans say: We secured elections. Every other year, they say election fraud is widespread texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Christopher Hooks strikes again. So smart! For Ken Paxton, Every Vote Counts Too Much texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

F1 should do a race in Houston, except it’s just surviving a trip around all of 610.

In 1975, D Magazine published a story by the great Dick Hitt. It was titled "The Ten Sexiest Women in Dallas." I, of course, share your outrage over this travesty. Hitt's intro to his 3,900-word essay:

Undoing pension reform (?)

There’s so many people who think that if the American media had used slightly different language to describe Trump, Americans wouldn’t like him. And I’m sorry to tell you we have less influence than ever. We understand this better than you do

Beautiful meditation by mimi swartz on the havoc wreaked by successive Houston windstorms texasmonthly.com/style/hurrican…

"I got involved with the Taliban"

“Concepts of a plan”