David Muto

State Reps. Ana Hernandez, D-Houston, and Jason Villalba, R-Dallas, debate whether President Obama had the authority to issue executive orders preventing the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.

Texas is once again fighting with the Obama administration over health care policy. But this time, writes former Texas Solicitor General James C. Ho, it’s state officials who are pushing for more regulation of health care.

Former NFL and University of Texas quarterback Vince Young explains why identifying with the struggles of many first-generation college students made him want to return to the university.

State Reps. Stefani Carter, R-Dallas, and Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, debate which gubernatorial candidate will better represent the state’s fast-growing minority communities.

Attorney Joe Nixon writes that the Texas Ethics Commission’s new “dark money” rule for political nonprofits is a loss for free speech in Texas, while Texas Ethics Commissioner Chase Untermeyer calls it a win for transparency in the state.

As the San Antonio City Council prepares to vote on a controversial water pipeline, Amy Hardberger of the St. Mary’s University School of Law and Robert Puente of the San Antonio Water System debate whether the project is right for the city.

Health care was supposed to be the No. 1 election issue this year, but it quickly faded. With Ebola now dominating headlines, Ken Janda of Community Health Choice writes, it’s time for a rational debate over health coverage.

Let Max Soffar — an innocent man on death row in Texas who is dying of liver cancer — spend his last days at home, writes Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project.

The debate over how to compute high school graduation rates distracts from Texas’ impressive accomplishments, writes Michael Marder, a physics professor at the University of Texas at Austin.