Rachel Monroe

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Rachel Monroe

Grayson Oliver came to the University of Texas at Austin three years ago as a freshman. A closeted queer kid from a small, conservative community near Fort Worth, he was one in the long line of students who’ve flocked to this quintessential college town, for decades considered a mecca for slackers, misfits and artists. And, like many students before him, Oliver blossomed on campus: He came out, joined student government and found a close circle of friends.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Monroe

Seventeen years ago, on assignment for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin travelled through central Texas on a barbecue-themed road trip. He was with editors from Texas Monthly, which had just published its top fifty barbecue joints in the state, a list which it updates every four years, and which, among Texans, is met with Olympic-level anticipation.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Rachel Monroe

19 hours agoUS: Illegal Immigrants Nabbed in Daring Border BustRio Grande City, United States - February 21, 2025 In a gripping showdown along the Texas border, the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) Brush Teams, working hand-in-hand with the US Border Patrol, swooped in to apprehend multiple illegal immigrants desperately trying to slip through Starr and Hidalgo Counties.

Dec 19, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rachel Monroe

The area has also been used by groups of migrants crossing the border, and the guides and scouts helping them. They were who Lyman was hoping to find. Midway up the mountain, he stopped to survey crumpled plastic bottles in an arroyo: possible evidence, he believed, of human trafficking. “I’ve seen this all across the entire border, this exact thing—water and energy drinks,” he said.

Nov 20, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Rachel Monroe

Share Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, a former Obama Administration official, was six years old when she became, as she puts it, “a card-carrying Indian”—an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, from whom she is descended on her mother’s side. The occasion was marked by the delivery of a typewritten card, issued by the tribe’s enrollment office.