Texas Monthly is hiring a full-time writer to cover Texas’s political leaders and movements, the policies they enact, and their impact on Texans. Rather than focus on incremental or breaking-news coverage, Texas Monthly’s news and politics coverage aims to create narratives and commentaries that are vivid and memorable, and shed original light on current affairs and raging Texas debates, with a literary flair—humor, wit, and distinctive voice—that is a core part of the magazine’s legacy. This writer will be a key component of the magazine’s political coverage and should be comfortable writing quick-turn colorful dispatches and more deeply reported pieces. This writer will establish an area of coverage with deep sourcing and ability to deliver scoops, but will also writ