Texas

Texas prison inmates report being raped at some of the highest rates in the country, and the problem only seems to be worsening.

Sparks are predicted to fly when farmers and consumer activists in Texas face off with government regulators who they have accused of a “power grab.”

Dean Baker: The richest people in the country don't pay their taxes because they don't feel like it.

Governor Rick Perry has announced that Texas will not comply with the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

As early as 2011, activists in some key cities had begun turning the tide against the Secure Communities program.

Immigrant detainees at migrant jails in Conroe, Texas, and Tacoma, Washington, are hunger striking.

In recent months conservatives have been boasting about the strong job growth of red state Texas compared to the much weaker job growth of blue state California. It's worth …

A hunger strike at a private GEO Group migrant jail in Tacoma, Washington, has spread to another in Texas.

The Texas legislature's rush to protect the oil and gas industry reflects a culture in which politics and business are almost inseparable.

Environmental groups are calling for a ban on fracking in Ohio after a series of small earthquakes erupted near an active fracking site last week.