Alvarado Police Lieutenant Thomas Gross sat in a squad car watching over his city’s eerily empty town square. It was the night of July 4 last year, and though North Texas had escaped the devastating storms that had swelled the Guadalupe River some two hun... See more
When Pamela Colloff first heard about a former Austin police officer turned con artist named Paul Skalnik, she knew she might have one of the great stories of her career. For the past two decades, first as a staff writer at Texas Monthly and more recently... See more
The first thing you need to know about the nine World Cup matches scheduled to take place in Dallas—starting with a sneaky-good June 14 group-stage face-off between the Netherlands and Japan and concluding with one of two semifinals on July 14—is that, in... See more
Seven years ago, on an early afternoon in February 2019, Donald Trump performed one of the least newsworthy acts of his first term: He endorsed John Cornyn for reelection to the U.S. Senate. The Republican primaries were still more than a year away, Corny... See more
When Dan Crenshaw got elected to Congress in a Houston-area district, in 2018, he was quickly anointed as one of the Republican Party’s rising stars. Only 34, he came armed with a Hollywood screenwriter’s dream of a political résumé. He had a master’s deg... See more
