Strangest State: Eclipses and Flying Snakes
A young teen reporter covers the Ken Paxton impeachment on typewriter, serpents fall from the sky and more dispatches from far-flung Texas.
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Strangest State: Alligators, Tigers & Hailstorms, Oh My!
Weird weather, unusual attacks on education, and zoo animals keeping cool, in the latest dispatch from far-flung Texas.
The Free People’s Village: Everyday Life in Solarpunk Texas
In a novelist’s alternative Texas, Al Gore became president and the War on Climate Change began. What could go wrong?
Strangest State: Ken Paxton and Other Odd Creatures
Impeachments, record-breaking alligator gars, and other rarities from far-flung Texas.
Strangest State: There’s No Place Like … Texas
What's weirder than K-Pax? Not much, but here's a couple of other Lone Star oddities.
The Awful 88th
Losers included taxpayers, teachers, trans youths, and anyone who uses electricity.
Strangest State: Ted Cruz Enjoys a White Claw
Smuggling bones. Horses with tail lights. Alcoholic seltzer goes aerial. Just another day in far-flung Texas.
We Did It, Y’all! Texas Observer Will Remain Open!
"Thanks to the extraordinary success of the staff’s fundraising this week," the publication's board of directors voted to rescind layoffs and shutdown.
Strangest State: Petty Drama, Electric Trucks and Hungry Bears
Fighting with your ex- in city council chambers? Ursine invaders with a taste for tacos? Just another day in far-flung Texas.
Catastrophe #88: The Texas Legislature Returns for a Brutal Year
What lawmakers should do to mitigate the state's cascading crises, and what they are liable to do instead.