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Physician and Author Ricardo Nuila thinks public hospitals could help save patients trapped in our troubled medical system.

Oklahoma executed a convicted murderer last week. Anthony Sanchez was killed for a 1996 murder though he was not arrested until 2006 based on DNA evidence.

A murder and an execution date changed those on both sides of the bars. A changed viewpoint on capital punishment.

In Maverick County, losing a grant meant stretching crews to cover extra shifts and lots of territory.

We can’t treat this as business as usual, even if it’s no longer new and shocking.

Multiple-choice question: UT’s Tom Philpott is (a) the best professor on campus, a selfless reformer, and the victim of an assassination attempt; (b) the worst professor on campus, a publicity hound, and a nut who staged his own shooting.

Can 15th-century doctrine explain today's culture wars?

A&M’s shameful treatment of Kathleen McElroy is the start of a backward-turning era for higher education.

American Stewards of Liberty paints apocalyptic visions about environmental programs. Counties are buying the hype, for tens of thousands in taxpayer funds.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Wikimedia CommonsAt least five counties in western states have paid tens of thousands in taxpayer funds to a right-wing group organizing a push against a federal land conservation program.The Biden administration’s “30 by 30” plan is a voluntary environmental program with a goal of conserving 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030. But anti-conservation groups have a darker interpretation of the i...