What makes Texas famous? Ranches? Oil? Breakfast tacos? These days, the question worth asking is what makes Texas infamous. The Lone Star State has started making headlines across the globe for maternal ...
Fifty years ago, Houston impressed the world with two high-profile accomplishments. We sent men to the moon. And our team played "The Game of the Century." On Jan. 20, 1968, the Astrodome hosted one of ...
Ask Shelley Simonds whether you should bother to vote. Simonds ran for the Virginia House of Delegates last year. On election night, it looked like she had lost, but not by much. Then a recount put her on ...
(Thumbs up) Space hero of the week No. 1. It's difficult to impress residents of Houston on the wonders of space, the cosmic collision and how this universe began. But in Jones Hall Monday night, Neil ...
The White House apparently can't help but spew nonsense when it comes to Texas border cities. The latest drivel comes courtesy of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who tweeted on Monday: ...
Even the steady drip of a melting icicle is enough to fill Houstonians with a sense of dread in the months after Hurricane Harvey. Is that another leak? A harbinger of the next deluge? Call it weather ...
For a brief, shining moment it seemed as if Washington was on the verge of untangling the political Gordian Knot of immigration reform. In an extraordinary televised White House meeting between the ...
President Trump continues to show disdain for free expression with his latest attack on the nation's libel laws. The most recent threat came last week as part of the administration's pushback on Michael ...
Sometimes you look at an abstract painting in an art museum and wonder what in the world the artist was thinking. Take a look at the map of Texas congressional districts and you could ask the same ...
This April the nation will mark 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. Since then he has been mourned, praised, studied and elevated to a place in our national pantheon. ...
With apologies in advance to our readers offended by crude language - our president's language - we hereby raise a Sunday morning toast to "shithole city." To our city. To Houston, the most diverse city in ...
