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Katydids prefer to be heard rather than seen. The insect’s name, an onomatopoeic transcription of the male mating call, first appeared in print in 1784, in Scottish American physician J.F.D. Smyth’s travelogue A Tour in the United States of America. “Their noise is loud and incessant,” Smyth wrote, “one perpetually and regularly answering the other in notes exactly similar to the words Katy did, or Katy Katy did, repeated by one, and another immediately bawls out Katy didn’t, or Katy Katy didn’t…
5 months ago
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So many cities; so many rivalries. Houstonians seem to view Dallas with contempt, while Dallasites claim not to think about Houston at all. Most San Antonians could happily live the rest of their lives without hearing anything else about Austin. West Texans would like folks along the Interstate 35 corridor to remember that they exist. But when it comes to driving, many Texans express their rivalries in a curious way: rather than insist that motorists in the cities we most despise are terrible, w…
5 months ago
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was dogged by controversy and lauded for her advocacy for her Black constituents.
4 months ago
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Allison Brocato last saw her sister alive on the afternoon of January 13, 1995. It was a Friday, and Catherine Edwards, Allison’s 31-year-old identical twin, had just gotten off work at Price Elementary School, in Beaumont. On her way home, Edwards stopped to pick up her beagle, whom Brocato had been dogsitting. She lingered a few minutes to chat and to play with Brocato’s infant daughter. “She seemed kind of sad that day,” Brocato would later recall. “I think she had had a fight with an ex-boyf…
4 months ago
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The long-serving Houston congresswoman died in July. Her replacement will be chosen not by voters but by a group of low-level party activists.
3 months ago
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After millions of Houstonians lost power last month, the local electricity provider is going on an apology tour. Is it too late?
3 months ago
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Locked in a tough reelection battle, Texas’s junior senator is trying to rebrand himself as a centrist problem solver. But the former tea party darling turned Trump enabler has found it difficult to give up the pleasures of provocation.
2 months ago
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Influential scholar Timothy Morton’s wide-ranging new book discusses their Christian conversion, confronting fascism, and the climate debate.
about 1 month ago
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Over the past decade, Texas has become a model for the extreme policies Trump is promising to pursue in his second term.
about 1 month ago
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Amid a tight reelection campaign, the junior senator is spending millions on antitrans advertisements.
24 days ago
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The little-known Dallas congressman decided that he only had to offer a low-key, less annoying alternative to Ted Cruz. But that approach allowed Republicans to define him.
17 days ago
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