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PAXTON’S NINTH LIFE • Impeached and in peril, the walls may finally be closing in on the allegedly criminal Texas attorney general.

SAVE THE MOTHERS • Maternal mortality rates are too high in Texas and the U.S. in general. We could fix that.

ABBOTT GETS SCHOOLED • Two anti-voucher advocates declare another win, for now at least, in the long fight against privatization.

STRANGEST STATE • NOTES FROM FAR-FLUNG TEXAS

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Staying Afloat • Lessons for the future of Texas water from the Medina and San Antonio rivers

SOPHI’S MURDER AND THE UNANSWERED CALL FOR JUSTICE • Investigations and prosecutions of homicides involving alleged domestic violence are uneven across Texas.

Abbott’s Billion Dollar Barrier • Without haste or good cause, Texas’ border wall is rearing its head—concerns about wildlife, public thrift, and property rights notwithstanding.

BRAVING ‘LA BESTIA’ • Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them.

THE HILL COUNTRY’S LOST UTOPIA • Searching for an egalitarian society in this red state

HOW LESS-EDUCATED WHITES FELL BEHIND AND BLAMED RACE • In Clinton, Arkansas, a reporter examines the effects of a stagnant economy in the place she came from.

D.E.E.P. BRIDGES • Houston’s Deborah Mouton is building a legacy, a mythology, and connections between cultures and artistic worlds.

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