Analysis: Is the Texas Capitol a Government Building or a Petri Dish?

A crowd filled the Texas Senate gallery in 2013 when then-Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, began a filibuster of legislation tightening the state’s abortion regulations. Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune

The Texas Capitol, where lawmakers gather every two years to pass laws, write budgets and argue politics, has a new function in 2021: It’s the incidental scene of a large public health experiment, a human-scale science fair exhibition of intense social interaction during a pandemic. It’s going as you might expect. State ...

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