On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.

How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.

On the campaign trail in the most Republican congressional district in America.

Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.

When the Great Depression put Plennie Wingo’s bustling Abilene cafe out of business, he tried to find fame, fortune, and a sense of meaning the only way he knew how: by embarking on an audacious trip around the world on foot. In reverse.

On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.

Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.

The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?

Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?

Riding along with the El Paso congressman.

On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.

The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.

Love and loss on the Texas Panhandle plains.

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his lifelong obsession.

What a state can teach us about a nation.

Ira Tobolowsky, a prominent lawyer, was burned alive in his North Dallas garage. A strong suspect quickly emerged. So why can’t the cops solve the case?

How a loving daughter and star student stole barium acetate from her high school chemistry lab, put it in her father’s refried beans, and almost got away with murder.

Odessa High School students know her as “Betty,” a ghost that haunts the auditorium at night.  But few know much about the real Betty, whose 1961 murder was “the most sensational crime in West Texas in its day.”

After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.