Most Recent in Politics:

1The Problem with Facts

2Despite GOP Claims, an Estate Tax Repeal Won’t Help 99 Percent of Farmers

3Charlie Sykes’ New Book Shows ‘How the Right Lost Its Mind’

4Beto Testing

5Texas GOP’s Favorite Meme-Maker is Now Helping the Far-Right in Germany

6Thousands of Poor Texans Could Lose Health Care With Congress Distracted by ACA Repeal

Most Recent in Environment:

1After Failing to Prop Up Coal in Texas, Rick Perry is Trying Again Nationwide

2In New Rule, Trump EPA Allows Texas Coal Plants to Pollute Even More Than They Already Do

3Costs for Rural Towns Surge after Hurricane Harvey Hits Water Systems

4Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

5Reports of Livestock Deaths, Other Ag Losses Trickle in After Harvey

6Flood Expert Jim Blackburn: Houston Must Plan or Perish

Most Recent in Border:

1ICE Detained a Pregnant Rape Survivor for Six Months, Records Show

2National Butterfly Center to Sue Over Construction of Trump’s Border Wall

3Bound to Pay

4Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

5Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

6ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Federal Prisons Don’t Even Try to Rehabilitate the Undocumented

2Excited. Delirious. Dead.

3It’s Time to End Austin’s Failed Experiment in Police Oversight, Activists Say

4ICE Detained a Pregnant Rape Survivor for Six Months, Records Show

5The Case to End Assembly Line Justice for Poor People in Harris County

6Bound to Pay

Most Recent in Education:

1Amid Anti-Confederate Push, San Antonio School District Changes Lee High School … to LEE High School

2Despite ‘Hardship’ Funding, Rural Texas Schools Face Difficult Financial Future

3Loon Star State: Texas Public Schools

4Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

5Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

6After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Thousands of Poor Texans Could Lose Health Care With Congress Distracted by ACA Repeal

2Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

3State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

4Judge Temporarily Halts New Texas Abortion Ban

5Despite Self-Congratulation, Lawmakers Did Virtually Nothing about Maternal Mortality Crisis

6Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1‘American Wolf’ Explores How People and Predators Should Coexist

2‘Thursday Night Lights’ Pays Tribute to Black Football History in Texas

3Charlie Sykes’ New Book Shows ‘How the Right Lost Its Mind’

4Short Story Contest Winner: ‘Muriel’

5In ‘Texas Blood,’ a Ramble Through Borderland History

6Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Stakes’

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The King of Pulp

2Ride Like a Girl

3High-Wire Act

4Fungi Town

5Crossing Over

6Signs of God

Most Recent in Essay:

1The Impossible City

2Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

3Stalking Horse

4Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

5Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

6Going It Alone

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

2Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

3Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

4Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

5Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

6Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Parallel Planes

2Options

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

4Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Excited. Delirious. Dead.

Is excited delirium syndrome a medical phenomenon, or a convenient cover for deaths in police custody?

by Michael Barajas

Features

by Christopher Hooks
Politics
Beto Testing

Can Beto O’Rourke’s seat-of-the-pants, DIY, break-the-rules campaign succeed against Ted Cruz?
by Gus Bova
Border
Bound to Pay

Does a company that puts ankle monitors on undocumented immigrants provide a helpful service, or a debt trap for desperate people?
by James McCandless
Economy
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Freest Little City in Texas’

How a libertarian experiment in city government fell apart over taxes, debt and some very angry people.
by Michael Agresta
Art
Wall Flowers

Border art projects bloom in the shadow of Trump's wall.

Criminal Justice
The Road to Huntsville
by Jorge Antonio Renaud
Economy
Fanning The Flames
by Christopher Collins
Culture
Our Lady of the Underground
by Asher Elbein
Border
Over the Wall
by Melissa del Bosque
Environment
Endangered Science
by Naveena Sadasivam
Environment
Death From Above
by Christopher Collins
Books
Stalking Horse
by Melissa del Bosque
Books
The King of Pulp
by Robyn Ross
Culture
Turning Tail
by Asher Elbein

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