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The best of our best content from March 17-21, 2014.

We have liveblogged each of the sessions from The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival’s Immigration track. The sessions included panels on immigration reform, Latinos and the Republican Party, securing the border, and the Voting Rights Act.

We have liveblogged each of the sessions in The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival’s Higher Education track. Sessions included panel discussions on the future of higher education in the state, what’s happening at non-flagship universities, governance and the role of regents, and the fight over paying stude…

We're thrilled to welcome some new faces to our newsroom — and to announce big new roles for two editors already on our team.

Manny García, a veteran reporter and editor, is the first of 11 hires for our ambitious joint project with ProPublica.

Coronavirus is in Texas, and The Texas Tribune is here to help — providing trusted information and helpful context about these rapidly changing events.

In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to a lawyer applies to criminal defendants. Together with the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, The Texas Tribune hosted a series of conversations Friday on public defense in Texas.

During a Texas Tribune event marking one year since the shooting at Robb Elementary School, parents, mental health experts and faith leaders talked about how the path to recovery isn’t the same for everybody.

Simmons talked with The Texas Tribune about “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey,” which depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality still persist.

An American Civil Liberties Union of Texas attorney and a UT-Austin professor discussed how free speech has been protected and challenged in campus protests, and what we should all learn from the last few weeks.