The five-figure energy bills Texans are now facing aren’t an accident: The system was designed this way.

As a devastating storm hit my home state, we relied on mutual aid as our elected officials showed their true face.

The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.

The Texas senator doesn’t do his job even when he’s home because conservatives have given up on governing.

Tucker Carlson and others are using the deadly storm to attack wind power, but the state’s independent, outdated grid and unreliable natural gas generation are to blame.

The lessons of Brexit remind us that being part of these United States is a really great deal.

The Tesla mogul says he wants to be left alone. But he’s been living off the taxpayer’s dime for years.

The state has seen an inspiring expansion of the progressive grassroots—and the mobilization of increasingly desperate state and private militants.

The Texas Railroad Commission is the most important climate race you’ve never heard of. And GOP candidate Jim Wright is pretty sketchy.

The federal courts were once the last line of defense against voter suppression. Now, filled with Trump’s conservative appointees, they’re encouraging it.

From California wildfires to Gulf Coast hurricanes, the disaster capitalists are always ready to make a killing.

Chrysta Castañeda could become the first-time Democrat to win statewide elected office since 1994.

James O’Keefe’s group is part of a sprawling campaign to delegitimize mail-in balloting in the fall—a campaign being led by the White House.

We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?

A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.

The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.

Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.

For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.

The AFL-CIO's endorsement of Mike Siegel suggests a new way forward for environmentalists and labor.

She has become one of the rare cops to be convicted of murder, despite a system that often works in their favor.