Kimberly M. Vazquez and Alyssa Estrada Join Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly is excited to announce two new members of our editorial team: Kimberly M. Vazquez and Alyssa Estrada.Vazquez, who hails from Laredo, joins us as our new fact-checker. In her role, she’...
Who Is Still Crossing the Border?
The Border Patrol stopped us as soon as we got down to the bank of the river between Mission and Reynosa, Mexico. The sun had started to set on an October day, and the Rio Grande reflected an orange l...
All Eyes on Dilley
On Wednesday morning, cars and buses from around the state pulled into the gravel parking lot behind the park on Main Street in Dilley, where a bright-green-and-red statue reminds visitors that the ti...
Queens of the Oil Age
The Coordinates series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. In 1925 a wildcatter who regularly conned investors into funding half-hearted explorations of what he suspecte...
Colt McCoy Is Now Quarterbacking Texas Higher Education Policy
Texas public universities are in crisis. For years, campuses have been roiled by fights over Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, censorship, and pro-Palestine protests. Professors across the...