After nine years of pursuing criminal fraud charges against the Texas attorney general, prosecutors now say that their case was weak.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-settlement/
Before Beth Dutton and Beyoncé, “rodeo wear” was just a style I had been taught all my life to avoid.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/how-to-wear-rodeo-western-fashion-dressing-texan/
The Italian restaurant was the spot where the upper crust dined with regular folks. After it was bought by Tilman Fertitta and relocated, it lost some of its charm as well as its less-well-off re...
The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton delivered a steady stream of tantalizing entertainment. But the most consequential moments played out when few were watching.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-impeachment-trial-inside-story/
The independent bookstores of sixties and seventies San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas created community and opened whole new worlds for Texans.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/remembering-closed-texas-bookstores-rosengrens/
And on the eighth day, the defense rested.
Everything you need to know about the alleged adultery, bribery, and abuse of office. Plus: Big-time lawyers! Billionaire donors! And burner phones!
From his alleged dealings with Nate Paul to the attorney general’s seeming penchant for fast food, here’s what we learned from documents released late Thursday night.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-impeachment-new-evidence/
When the go-go Houston corporation collapsed in spectacular fashion, it became a punch line across the nation. But some of the bad guys had the last laugh.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/fall-and-rise-of-enron/
Threats from the AG’s supporters loom over the Republican state senators who will serve as the jurors in the impeachment trial.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-trial-senate-conviction-chances/
As celebrity lawyers feud in the press, Republican groups have launched an influence campaign in the Texas Senate.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-impeachment-gop-donors-senate-jury/
Six years ago, the mother of all storms arrived and brought home a lesson too many of us have refused to learn: our penchant for bravely adapting to circumstances has its limits.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/what-hurricane-harvey-taught-us-and-didnt-teach-us/
John Nova Lomax, a former senior editor at Texas Monthly who died Monday, was a beautiful storyteller who struggled with his own story.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/john-nova-lomax-goodbye-to-a-writer/
Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian’s new book, ‘We Were Once a Family,’ examines a murder-suicide that made national news—and finds that the story behind the story is even worse than we t...
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/how-harris-county-failed-children-murder-suicide-book/
While extremely limited, avenues for abortion access exist in Texas. That’s where fear tactics from antiabortion activists come into play.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-antiabortion-chilling-effect-lawsuits/
In the eighties, petroleum prices went through the roof, and Texans, flush with cash, went a little crazy—before it all came crashing down. Will we ever learn?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/houston-oil-boom-that-went-bust/
Matthew Kacsmaryk cut his teeth at First Liberty Institute, a “religious liberty” law firm with Texas roots—and a growing national reach.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/first-liberty-abortion-pill-lawsuit/
The larger-than-life, redheaded émigré from Spur, Texas—who died at 95—seemed intent on making the town his own. And he did.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/red-mccombs-dies-at-95/
Decades before the recent police violence in Memphis, a brutally beaten Latino man was tossed by officers into a Houston bayou and drowned. The protests that followed continue to echo in the city...
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/looking-back-killing-of-jose-campos-torres/
What seems like an outbreak of local skirmishes is part of a decades-long push to privatize the education system.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabotage-texas-public-schools/
The names have changed over the decades, but through it all, Texas remains a place where money gets made—and spent.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-business-innovation-icons-then-and-now-1970s/
Fawcett set the standard in the 1970s—blond, thin, and smiling. Thankfully, that’s changed.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/farrah-fawcett-texas-poster-beauty-standard-beyonce/
For more than fifty years, the state I call home has repeatedly surprised me. The Texas of 2023? Well, it’s got me thinking a lot about how far we have, and haven’t, come.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-then-and-now-history-future-2023/
Its recent troubles notwithstanding, the Dallas-based brand remains a shrine to good taste.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/neiman-marcus-store-dallas-texas-fashion/
When Texas Monthly covered Enron's fall in 2001, we wondered if the company was an outlier or the new normal. There's no longer any question.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-desk/behind-the-story-how-enron-blew-it/