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
Beckam Drake comes from what he calls a “pretty cookie-cutter Texas family.” His mom, Kaylyn, teaches English as a second language in the local public schools. His dad, Justin, is a mechanic in the oil fields north of Amarillo, where the family lives. Whe... See more
