Texas

There are increasing reports of voter harassment in Dallas County as the hotly contested Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke hurtles toward its culmination.

• By Blake Paterson

The Texas secretary of state's office has asked the state's attorney general to investigate a democratic mailer that had a checkbox indicating citizenship pre-checked.

• By Blake Paterson

Travis County received around 35,000 written registrations on the final day to submit them, meaning that they now need to be sorted by hand before early voting begins next week.

• By Jessica Huseman

America's courts still don't have clear protections for defendants with severe mental illness.

• By David M. Perry

After securing over $500 million in March to build a border barrier, the Department of Homeland Security has begun laying the foundation for the first miles of Donald Trump's long-promised wall. The blueprint bisects federally protected public lands and dismembers private property that's been passed down for generations.

• By David Leffler

Texas offers Americans a glimpse into what the future may look like if the Trump administration passes new reproductive rules.

• By Francie Diep

Trace Crutchfield's Super PAC, IXNAY, promises to raise hell to get Trump and his allies—starting with Ted Cruz—out of office.

• By Arvind Dilawar

At the right moment, a cussing candidate can be attractive, especially to voters who are mad as all get out.

• By Ross Ramsey

One study suggests it's possible but not feasible.

• By James McWilliams

Paul Quinn College in Dallas became the nation's first urban work college. Now it's expanding to a second campus and creating a consortium of other urban colleges that may join the work college movement.

• By Delece Smith-Barrow

The oil business in New Mexico is booming, but due to the state's stricter laws the groundwater being used to access petroleum is pumped in from Texas.

• By Matt Weiser

Interviews with numerous former employees at facilities run by Southwest Key network, the largest licensed shelter provider for immigrant children caught crossing the border.

• By Kavitha Surana & Robert Faturechi

The recovery plan includes $1.1 billion in aid for home reconstruction, and $1.1 billion each for the City of Houston and Harris County.

• By Rebecca Worby

Twenty years after the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, some residents are trying to scrub the crime—and the bigotry behind it—from the town's history.

• By John Savage

Circle up and grab a talking stick—it could save schools from violent outbursts.

• By Ashley Hackett

The plan calls for increased law enforcement at schools and active shooter training for students.

• By Rebecca Worby

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a feature on biochar in the Amazon to an interview with Cornell University professor Jamila Michener on how unstable medicaid programs affect political engagement.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
• Member Exclusive

A look at the research on what happens to contraceptive access for low-income Americans when the government withholds funding to family-planning clinics.

• By Francie Diep

The coffin of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, is carried during her funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A high-level official at the Department of the Interior held meetings with a previous employer, the Koch-linked Texas Public Policy Foundation, while it was involved in legal action against the department, according to newly obtained documents.

• By Jimmy Tobias

A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winner on how the Lone Star State's unique culture came to develop in the first place, and how it's evolved alongside the state's economy.

• By Caitlin Cruz

School officials shouldn't joke about calling the cops on vulnerable children. They should also stop treating non-compliance as criminal.

• By David M. Perry

Betsy Devos is leading a movement to roll back the initiatives used by the Obama administration to reduce racial discrimination in school punishments.

• By Annie Waldman

Border Patrol agent Robert Rodriguez tracks for signs of undocumented immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, on March 26th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff