Over the last two weeks, we've shared our 15-part multimedia series on how the state's explosive oil and gas growth is changing lives and fortunes across Texas. Take a look back at the Shale Life project in its entirety.

The best of our best content from Nov. 17-21, 2014.

TribCast host Reeve Hamilton and Tribune editors Evan Smith, Ross Ramsey and Emily Ramshaw unpack the 2014 general election after the ballots are counted. 

Check out complete results from the 2014 general election — including statewide, congressional, legislative and judicial races — on our scoreboard.  

Watch live as Texas Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith previews the 84th legislative session with state Sen. Robert Nichols and state Rep. Travis Clardy at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. 

Watch full video of the second and final gubernatorial debate between Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, courtesy of KERA.

Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, House Speaker Joe Straus said he's "awfully sick" of the drama between regents and legislators that is making it the "only campus in the state of Texas that gets this much attention." 

UT/Texas Tribune pollsters Jim Henson and Joshua Blank take a look at whether the indictment, in calling attention to Gov. Rick Perry’s view of the governor’s authority, will affect the power of the office after his departure. 

Rice University political science department chairman Mark P. Jones writes that while it's not news to say the 2014 lieutenant governor’s race provides Texas voters with a stark contrast in political ideologies, now the numbers back it up.

Writer Ellen Sweets says Austin's "black problem" — the fact that it's the only fast-growing large city in the U.S. that's losing African-American residents — is rooted not in race but in the dissipation of a working class. 

Susan Griffin, executive director of the National Council for the Social Studies, says Texas-based critics arguing that changes to AP U.S. history amount to historical revisionism are off the mark. 

Battleground Texas on Thursday released a web video on behalf of Democrat Susan Motley, a lawyer and mother who is up against Rodney Anderson in Grand Prairie's House District 105.

Check out Falling Behind, our 10-part series on the flip side of state leaders' aggressive pursuit of the "Texas Miracle" — from water woes and backed up traffic to missed opportunities in public education and climate change. 

In a new web ad, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott attacks his Democratic opponent Wendy Davis over what his campaign alleges is her "willingness to raise taxes."  

Grace Garcia, the executive director of the Democratic women-in-politics group Annie's List, was killed in a car accident in Waxahachie on Monday, the organization said early Tuesday morning.