Ronnie Dugger
By Ronnie Dugger:
Four Texans on How to Fight Back in the Age of Trump
The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics
It’s long past time in Texas for straight talk, starting with the blunt facts about the nullity the Texas Democratic Party has become.
Illustration by Adam Maida The presidency of Donald Trump is an emergency for the United States. Now is the time for each ethics-seeking American citizen to fight for democracy in a nonviolent revolution. With the nation now ruled by Trump … Read More
Texas Needs a Nonviolent Revolution at the Polls
What can one person who cares about others do when our dangerously pivotal Texas needs a nonviolent revolution? Something? Anything? Read More
Integration Hero and Education Legend George I. Sanchez Gets a New Biography
Education pioneer fought racial segregation in schools after witnessing its severe effects on Mexican Americans. Read More
The Next 60: Agenda for a New Texas
“I have never heard of or seen in my 80 years watching Texas a more empathy-dead, society-wide INJUSTICE than the refusal of...tens of billions in Medicaid money.”
An idea can change society, and being the people, we have lots of ideas. Let’s look, too, for more good, young new leaders and also some not so young. Read More
When The Texas Observer Decided to Exist
Founding editor Ronnie Dugger tells the little-known story of how and why, in the winter of 1954, the Observer was made. Read More
From the Archives: The Last Voyage of Mr. Kennedy
Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger chronicles President Kennedy's historic tour and tragic end in Texas. Read More
Lawrence Goodwyn, A Man of Words and Ideals
Remembering Larry Goodwyn—reporter, historian and champion for civil rights and populism.
Lawrence Goodwyn, the controversial author and important editor and writer for The Texas Observer, died at 85 of long-suffered emphysema on Sept. 29. Read More
LBJ, The Texas Observer & Me
The confrontation between Lyndon Johnson on one side and The Texas Observer and me on the other arrived on its own terms at his ranch in the Hill Country in 1955. He was the senior United States senator from Texas … Read More
Aggie and her Killer
Texas, with one-thirteenth of the country’s people, has killed 37 percent of the convicted murderers “executed” in the United States since 1976. As Adam Liptak’s December 26 report in The New York Times made clear, this is not because Texans … Read More
