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Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. She is a scholar of digital religion and Islamophobia.

Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

Steve Stockman, the felonious GOP politician, wants to return to Washington with bid for newly gerrymandered Houston-area ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of ...

If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a ...

Sitting in a Brazoria County courtroom in 1994, Anthony Graves, a Black man, looked at his nearly all-white jury. He was on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and the state was seeking the death ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 turbines towering ...

Rachelle Meyer is an American illustrator and cartoonist living in Amsterdam. She’s been published in The New York Times, The ...