The 2025 Texas Tribune Festival Archives

The 2025 Texas Tribune Festival

Watch: Virtual one-on-one interview with Vicente Fox for Texas Tribune Festival

by Texas Tribune Events Staff Dec. 5, 2025

The former president of Mexico sat down for a virtual interview with Berenice Garcia, Rio Grande Valley reporter for The Texas Tribune.

Lexi Churchill, reporter at the ProPublica/Texas Tribune Investigative Unit, moderates a panel with EdChoice, Inc. President and CEO Robert Enlow; Senior Director of K-12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress Weadé James; ClassWallet Founder and Executive Chair Jamie Rosenberg; and Jeannie Lehman Lopez, 2nd Vice President, at Austin Council of PTAs during The Texas Tribune Festival 2025 in downtown Austin on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2025.

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Listen to highlights from the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival

by Texas Tribune Staff Nov. 20, 2025

Hear conversations on the issues shaping Texas and the nation, including education, the economy, politics, public policy, the arts and more.

2024 candidate for vice president and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz sits down with Jennifer Palmieri, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and co-host of Showtime’s The Circus, during a one-on-one conversation at The Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025.

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The 2025 Texas Tribune Festival in photos

by Eddie Gaspar Nov. 16, 2025

Images from this year’s festival, which ended Saturday in Austin.

Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, speaks with CBS News medical contributor Celine Gounder during the closing keynote at The Texas Tribune Festival 2025 in downtown Austin on Nov. 15, 2025.

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Sanjay Gupta says Americans have unique “disdain for pain” and should turn to brain’s natural painkillers for relief

by Stephen Simpson Nov. 15, 2025Nov. 15, 2025

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.”

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Watch: Chris Hayes speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival

by Texas Tribune Events Staff Nov. 15, 2025

The MSNBC anchor talks about his new book with Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith at 4 p.m. Saturday.

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Watch: Adam Schiff speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival

by Texas Tribune Events Staff Nov. 15, 2025

The Democratic U.S. senator from California sits down with journalist Terry Moran at 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

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Watch: Walter Isaacson speaks at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival

by Texas Tribune Events Staff Nov. 15, 2025

The biographer and historian talks about his new book with John Avlon of The Bulwark at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

From left: Texas Tribune public education reporter Jaden Edison moderates a panel with Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura, Tomball ISD Superintendent Martha Salazar-Zamora, and San Angelo ISD Superintendent Christopher Moran during The Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin, on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025.

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Texas superintendents say school takeovers aren’t a sustainable way to boost student learning

by Sneha Dey and Jaden Edison Nov. 15, 2025

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.