Raj Mankad

Houston has a different culture than Los Angeles. We have a slower burn, but we also have had conflict: Camp Logan, TSU, Moody Park, and George Floyd.

Displaying a single version of the Ten Commandments would violate the First Amendment. So how about putting up moral codes from many different traditions.

Mo Amer, comedian and star "Mo," talks with Raj Mankad about how Houston can show the world how to disagree and still live together in peace.

The Texas Legislature is on the verge of passing an education savings account bill? Raj Mankad, a former homeschooling dad, considers if he'd apply for one.

METRO expanded its microtransit pilot to the Heights. Will the small electric shuttles revolutionize Houston's public transportation?

University of Houston's win over Duke embodied the spirit of our whole city. They fought hard. Now it's our turn to fight for them.

In 2003, Raj Mankad protested in Houston against a free trade agreement. Now he's the Chronicle's interim opinion editor. What's he think of Trump's tariffs?

After reporting on Houston's celebrated homeless response system, a journalist reflects on whether homeowners can help fill the gaps.

Even Indians don't say "Kamala" the same way. The way Vice President Harris says it is as untraditional as Trump's version. It's the intent that matters.

The "Keys to the White House" model has predicted the outcome of nearly every presidential election since 1984.

Transit riders are used to waiting. You’ve seen us there, under a shelter if we’re lucky, craning our necks looking for a bus in the distance. But waiting more than 20 years is too long. That’s how long Houston has been waiting for the long-promised University Line to break ground. Then, last week, Metro decided that we’ll have to keep waiting, perhaps forever. The main reason the board of Houston’s public transit agency gave? Construction costs, which have ballooned with inflation. While tha…

Texans deserve true access to our state’s wildflowers not just roadside but in great free...

The Sneary family adopted regenerative ranching practices that restore soil and sequester...

After two years of pandemic, the Chronicle’s op-ed editor tried to reconnect with the...

After two years of pandemic, the Chronicle’s op-ed editor tried to reconnect with the...

As we battle over TxDOT’s plans, we need a grounded perspective that centers on the...

And now this? It’s a phrase 54-year-old Alice Torres uses like a refrain in a ballad of traumas over the past few years that led her here, to this moment, speaking to me by phone with the borrowed breath of a backup oxygen tank that, by Wednesday afternoon, was running dangerously low. Harvey didn’t spare her and her mother Dolores Torres in 2017, swamping the 60-year-old, low-slung brick house they shared near Hobby Airport in so much water that home and flood insurance couldn’t cover mold reme…

Indians find a way to celebrate but it’s just not the same over Zoom.

Though most of the cartoons you see in the Opinion section come through national syndication, Houston-based cartoonist John Branch is a regular contributor on Sundays. Op-Ed Editor Raj Mankad spoke to Branch about his work and his drawings for 2019. How does the idea for a cartoon come to you? Basically a lot of trial and error, and a lot of erasing. You try to find visual metaphors to say what you want to say and to be concise as you can be. Sometimes the ideas flow and pop in from nowhere. Of…

This week, Houston takes center stage in a national movement to preserve communities of color. A three-day conference will culminate November 3 with the inaugural celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony to kick off the North Main Street Heritage Corridor Initiative in Independence Heights, where artists will draw sketches of seven planned murals that will tell the story of the first African American municipality in Texas. “The theme of the 2018 Preserving Communities of Color Conference is Disru…