Jason Heid

I. The land had been theirs since long before any of them could remember. As a child in the fifties, Lawrence Smith grew up playing in its spring-fed creek and riding in a mule-drawn wagon driven by his father, who grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and watermelons in its loamy soil. Once he’d grown into a man, Lawrence used its pasture for raising cattle and hogs, some of which he had butchered for his freezer, alongside the venison from deer he regularly shot as they bounded across its 36 acres…

I can still smell the heavenly aroma of Mrs Baird’s baking bread as we’d drive through Dallas past the factory.

Brad Lomax was stoked until he found himself fighting Mother Nature and supervising 1.5 million babies.

Nutritionists have debated for decades the risks and benefits of eating red meat. But now the fight is getting ugly, with each side accusing the other of conflicts of interest.

For decades, the Texas director’s movies have celebrated the sort of mundane yet consequential interactions that the coronavirus took from us. He’s still at it, albeit temporarily cut off from the film community he helped build.

The inside story of the Dallas-born luxury retailer’s struggle to remain relevant—and solvent.

The rural area lost both its hospitals. Can a high-tech station in Cameron fill the urgent-care gap?

After the pandemic, will Texas’s wide open cityscapes lure big business?

Texas A&M wants to transform medicine by training a generation of innovation-minded physicians.

With a new gene therapy center almost completed, the medical center is providing hope for families who previously had little.

Melissa Maerz’s new book is a raucous reunion for the cast and crew of the film, whose depiction of the insecurities and thrills of teenage life have made it timeless.

With its industry reeling, the Fort Worth–based airline giant is quietly betting that diminished competition will keep passengers coming—even as they grumble about the carrier’s poor service, late arrivals, and the jam-packing of its flights amid the pandemic.

One editor remembers his former boss as unreasonably demanding—and unafraid of investing in great journalism.

The annual mock-government summer camp—which I attended in 1995—hits the national spotlight thanks to an engaging new documentary.

Automated helpers, like Diligent Robotics’ Moxi, could reduce the risks to frontline medical workers.

To trace the disease’s spread, the Dallas County medical examiner has set out to screen all of those who end up in his morgue.

These themes, which he returns to again and again in his movies, illustrate how he’s developed as a filmmaker.

Lauren Ancel Meyers was at home with her family in Austin one evening in April 2009 when she saw a news report about a deadly new strain of influenza circulating in Mexico City. She and her husband called a friend living there to find out what he’d heard about the virus. He told them one of his coworkers had died of the disease that very morning. “It was really alarming,” Meyers, a mathematical epidemiologist with the University of Texas at Austin, told an audience at a lecture last fall. “It ma…

President Trump elevated him from MD Anderson Cancer Center to the FDA just in time for the untested federal official to face a global pandemic.

In his first interview since taking the reins, MD Anderson’s former chief medical executive discusses the need to modernize.