Texas’ Hotbed of Taiwanese Nationalism
For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.
Since 1954
For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.
Lou Dubose edited the Observer for longer than anyone before or since. He expanded the publication’s coverage south of the border and later co-authored books with Molly Ivins.
It’s not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump’s choices to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.
State leaders want nuclear reactors to provide power to large industrial facilities. But South Texas locals worry that a uranium boom could affect their groundwater.
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
Houston native and education expert Diane Ravitch urges a fight for “the future of Texas, and for the future of the children” under Trump’s proposed reforms.
Republicans nearly ran the table in state House races, shoring up Governor Abbott’s school voucher majority for the 2025 session.
On Tuesday, the most modest of boasts became famous last words for the lower chamber’s dwindling Ds.
Maybe Dems need to recover the lessons of Beto 2018. Or maybe the sun will die before the state turns blue.
Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
“When I see a mom with her child trying to cross, it’s like I see myself in her.”
In a divided political climate, many now hold their breath, waiting to see if deportation rhetoric becomes reality.
The unexpected fate of Houston’s Northside holds lessons that the city’s boosters may not wish to hear.
New collections of fiction and nonfiction build on Dagoberto Gilb’s long career as chronicler of the working-class Southwest.
A new book reveals the secrets of moon memorabilia and the friendship between a famous Texas astronaut and his barber.
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