A Texas family investigated under a “child abuse” directive targeting trans youth is taking the state to court.

Ken Paxton says his “formal attorney general opinion” is that gender-affirming health care for trans kids is “child abuse.”

The Texas governor’s use of irregular military deployments to fearmonger at the border could be coming to a state near you.

In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

Remote-access abortion has been framed as the wave of the future. But plenty of states will still find ways to criminalize self-managed abortion.

In America, pregnancy is a uniquely violent and sometimes deadly time. Abortion can be a lifeline.

The high court’s decision in the matter of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law seems destined to spawn further chaos.

As the Supreme Court hears arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, the director of a clinic in the South reflects on the damage already done.

The ex-congressman from Texas came fairly close to unseating Ted Cruz in 2018. Here’s how he thinks he could get over the line against Governor Greg Abbott.

Around the country, conservative parents are merging moral panics about critical race theory and queerness into one noxious package.

Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

The only thing more bizarre than his “Texit” fantasy is his read of the current state of American politics.

After decades in operation, Crime Stoppers’ role in shaping policy and public perception on criminal justice has received little scrutiny.

With a bill banning trans student athletes, Republicans are claiming to protect children in order to consolidate power. Where have we seen this before?

Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are giving Democrats an opening to retake the Covid-19 narrative and exploit a winning issue.

While Texas providers remain in limbo, advocates are stepping up local strategies for abortion access.

The perils of turning the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade into a political symbol

The state is trying to regulate something it can’t: the decentralized distribution of pills largely originating in Mexico, where abortion is no longer a crime.

Major U.S. companies apparently don’t see Texas’s abortion ban as an economic threat.

After the Supreme Court refused to block the new law, Attorney General Merrick Garland sued the state on constitutional grounds.