Reader TTS

Settle in this holiday season with a few of our staff-selected greatest hits from 2014. Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online By Michael Agresta Published October 13, 2014 _If we want

to maintain the kind of thoughtful, reflective, curious minds that engineered the Internet in the first place, it’s time to face up to what reading online is doing to our brains._ Barred

Care By Emily DePrang Published January 13, 2014 _Harris County is Texas’ largest mental hospital. Many Texans can get better mental health treatment inside the jail than out of it._ Into

the Pines By Patrick Michels Published February 5, 2014 _After months of burglaries, a terrorized East Texas town discovers the culprit is one of their own, a survivalist watching them from

the woods._ The Texas GOP Swings Further to the Right By Christopher Hooks _The Ascendancy of Dan Patrick_ Published March 5, 2014 _Backs to the Future: The 2014 GOP Convention_ Published

June 7, 2014 _Lawman, Lawbreaker: Ken Paxton and the Problem with One-Party Rule_ Published August 1, 2014 Laid to Rest in Huntsville By Robyn Ross Published March 11, 2014 _Of the roughly

450 inmates who die in Texas prisons each year, about 100 are laid to rest in Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville._ A Texas Border Militiaman Reconsiders the Mission By Forrest Wilder

Published October 15, 2014 _Militiaman Charles Gilbert joined the Texas Border Volunteers to “kick some ass,” but the group’s tactics forced him to do some soul-searching._ Gimme Shelter By

Emily DePrang Published July 8, 2014 _Are megachurch-goers looking for sanctuary in all the wrong places?_ Texas’ New Abortion Law is Driving Women to Extremes By Carolyn Jones Published

February 25, 2014 _A woman must pawn her wedding ring and flee to Arkansas to terminate her pregnancy because of Texas’ new 20-week abortion ban._ To Kill? Or Not to Kill? By Maurice Chammah

Published April 23, 2014 _As executions decline in Texas, a small-town prosecutor decides whether to seek the death penalty._ Beyond the Border By Melissa del Bosque Published August 6,

2014 _Our four-part series, produced in collaboration with _The Guardian_, examines migrant deaths in South Texas._