70 Years of Skewering
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The “magic dust” of adding funny drawings to words has been an important part of the Texas Observer.
News ⋆
A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration.
Opinion ⋆
Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.
News ⋆
New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death.”
Books ⋆
PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.
The Texas senator’s iHeartMedia deal, which sent over $600,000 to an aligned super PAC, may have broken campaign finance laws—or exploited a new loophole.
The attorney general’s close ties to Texas’ right-wing think tank and its large network of uber-wealthy donors and special interests
A new investigation of a deadly fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked detention cell in Mexico shows that keys and fire extinguishers were readily available, but withheld.
Robie Flores’ “The In Between” is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.
“Surges in immigration do not constitute an ‘invasion’ within the meaning of the Constitution.”
A literary website that has connected bookish Texans since 2015 nearly closed this year. Then one of its readers saved it.
Texas highways have destroyed and dominated our built environment. Megan Kimble’s book “City Limits” offers a new vision.
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
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