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Six Things to Watch in Texas’ 2018 Runoff Election

Tuesday’s runoffs will spotlight intra-party feuds, test whether 2018 is really the year of women and conclude a dispiriting battle for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

by Texas Observer Staff

Features

by Naveena Sadasivam
Environment
Too Big To Fine, Too Small To Fight Back
by Christopher Collins
Politics
Access Denied

How lawmakers, the Texas Supreme Court and Ken Paxton closed the door on open government.
by Sophie Novack
Health Care
Indoctrinated

For one woman, that made a painful loss even worse — and she worries it could soon become routine across Texas.
by Rose Cahalan
Culture
The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

Hidden away on private land in Southwest Texas is some of the oldest and best-preserved prehistoric rock art in the world. The Rock Art Rendezvous offers a rare glimpse.

Culture
Big Trouble in Little Cambodia
by Michael Hardy
News
Big Spring Vs. Big Oil
by Christopher Collins
Education
Nazis Go To School
by Candice Bernd and Jordan Buckley
2017 in Review
Beto Testing
by Christopher Hooks
Health Care
Bordering on an Outbreak
by Sophie Novack
2017 in Review
Excited. Delirious. Dead.
by Michael Barajas
2017 in Review
How To Disappear a River
by Naveena Sadasivam
2017 in Review
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Freest Little City in Texas’
by James McCandless
Criminal Justice
A Prison By Any Other Name
by Michael Barajas

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