Watch: Abby Phillip speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The CNN anchor talks about her new book about Black political power with CBS contributor Mark Whitaker at 10:45 a.m. Saturday.
Watch: Walter Isaacson speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The biographer and historian talks about his new book with John Avlon of The Bulwark at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Texas superintendents say school takeovers aren’t a sustainable way to boost student learning
School district leaders said the state’s increasing reliance on takeovers to improve academic performance threatens local control. The emergence of private school vouchers could pose another challenge.
Watch: Chris Hayes speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The MSNBC anchor talks about his new book with Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Watch: Adam Schiff speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The Democratic U.S. senator from California sits down with journalist Terry Moran at 2:15 p.m. Saturday.
Sanjay Gupta says Americans have unique “disdain for pain” and should turn to brain’s natural painkillers for relief
During The Texas Tribune Festival’s closing keynote, the neurosurgeon said that for decades, pain management wrongly treated the body “as totally separate from the brain.”
Joaquin Castro on why a Democratic Senate logjam stopped him from running for AG
The San Antonio Democrat said at The Texas Tribune Festival that he hoped to form a statewide slate with Colin Allred, Beto O’Rourke and James Talarico, but the group couldn’t find consensus.
Watch: Eric Holder speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The former U.S. attorney general sits down with Melissa Murray of NYU Law School at 4 p.m. Friday.
U.S. Senate hopeful Colin Allred criticizes rival James Talarico for accepting billionaire Adelson’s donations
Allred’s comments at The Texas Tribune Festival marked the first time either leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate publicly criticized the other.
Meet the candidates vying to be Texas attorney general in the post-Paxton era
At the Texas Tribune Festival, Republican and Democratic candidates made their case for why they should be the state’s top lawyer.