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The State Board of Education Just Overhauled Its Curricula. Christian Nationalists Are Cheering.
As a man bearing a Confederate flag sat outside a State Board of Education meeting on Monday, a prominent Christian activist took the podium inside, urging that public schools combat Islamic pedophile...

Rosemary on Brisket? This Houston BBQ Joint Is Definitely Doing Things Differently.
Jake Granville, a co-owner of Houston’s Eastbound Barbecue, explains the motto of his newly opened joint like this: “We want to intrigue the enthusiast without offending the purist.” Granville a...

This Stretch of Texas Built the World We Live In
In the Permian Basin there’s a joke about Midland-Odessa: It’s where God sat while he created the rest of the earth. I laughed when an oil worker told it to me, but a few days later I’d find mys...