Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1Texas Legislative Session Begins With Heavy Security Presence Following U.S. Capitol Riot

2Lege in the Time of Coronavirus

3Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

4Texas Tally: Hindsight is 2020

5After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

6Rural Voters Stepped on the Gas for Trump Across the Texas Oil Patch

Most Recent in Environment:

1Teens for a Green New Deal

2Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal

3Solar Energy is Hitting a Growth Spurt. So Is The Disinformation Around It.

4Texas Has Elected A Climate Change Denier to the Railroad Commission

5Illegal Air Pollution is Skyrocketing in Texas, But State Regulators are Ignoring Complaints

6Why is Michael Bloomberg Giving $2.6 Million to Elect a Railroad Commissioner in Texas?

Most Recent in Border:

1Local Organizers Explain the Republican Surge in South Texas

25,000 People Contract COVID-19 While In ICE Custody, Including This Father Of 5

3Mexico Turns To Television And Radio For Remote Learning

4New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail

5El ducto del coronavirus

6The Coronavirus Pipeline

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Anatomy of a Crime

2Fort Bend County Will Soon Have Its First Black Sheriff Since Reconstruction

3How Texas Jails Avoid Investigations of Inmate Deaths

4I Left My Friends in Prison in a Pandemic. Here’s What It’s Like For Them.

5After the Deaths of Two Soldiers at Fort Hood, the Navajo Nation Wants Answers

6Trump’s Favorite Texas Sheriff Faces Re-Election Amid a Spike in Deaths at His Jail

Most Recent in Education:

1The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

2Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

3Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

4The New Ensemble

5Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

6Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas

2After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

3For Families That Lost Loved Ones or Jobs to the Pandemic, Thanksgiving Carries an Extra Weight This Year

4How We Got Here

5A West Texas Nursing Home Sent Its COVID-Positive Residents Elsewhere. Now Two of Them Are Dead.

6The Forgotten Children of Texas

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

2Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1A New Book Celebrates the Work of Architect John S. Chase

2The Flâneur of Downtown Dallas

3Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas

4How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

5A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession

6Improbable, Prophetic Houston

Most Recent in Features:

1How to Die in Texas

2Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

2What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

3Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

4What’s a Bookstore for?

5Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

6In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

3Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

4Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

5Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

6Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

2Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

3Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6Parallel Planes

Hooks on Politics

by Christopher Hooks

Just When Ken Paxton Thought He Was In the Clear…

Thu, Apr 9, 2015 |

We'd reached a plateau in the long-broiling ethics scandal around Attorney General Ken Paxton. But in the last week, things are starting to heat up again....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

In the Wee Hours, a House Budget is Born

Wed, Apr 1, 2015 |

After 16 hours of continuous debate, the House budget passed Wednesday. There weren't many real divides between members, but a Senate showdown is coming....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Ted Cruz, Manchurian Candidate

How the junior senator from Texas helped precipitate a milestone in the growth of the Chinese state.

Mon, Mar 30, 2015 |

Last year, Ted Cruz tanked a carefully worked-out deal to reform the International Monetary Fund. This month, the chickens came home to roost....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

How Senate Republicans Saved the Franchise Tax

Freshman hazing is a tradition in the Legislature, but Troy Fraser took it a little further on Wednesday.

Thu, Mar 26, 2015 |

Today, Dan Patrick's passed his beloved tax cuts through the Senate. But an unusual rift between tea partiers and their colleagues threatens disunity....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

President Ted Cruz? Meh.

Mon, Mar 23, 2015 |

Ted Cruz is running. Will Cruzmentum set the world on fire? Probably not, but he could make a hell of a mess of the GOP's Texas primary next year....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Committee Hears Bill to Allow Ken Paxton to Toss Local Ballot Initiatives

Wed, Mar 11, 2015 |

A bill authored by state Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford) would allow the attorney general to disallow local ballot initiatives at his discretion....Read More

Sen. Jane Nelson and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick

by Christopher Hooks

Dan Patrick’s Inexplicable & Contradictory Budget Proposals

Dan Patrick from last week, meet Dan Patrick from this week.

Tue, Mar 10, 2015 |

Dan Patrick, in an attempt to find money for his tax cuts, proposed to weaken the "spending cap" just last week. Now, he's out to strengthen it. Huh?...Read More

Kory Watkins open carry

by Christopher Hooks

Open Carry Activists: Not Your Daddy’s Gun Nuts

Fri, Mar 6, 2015 |

Gun rights activists just aren't what they used to be....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Dan Patrick’s New Website is Pretty Weird

Fri, Mar 6, 2015 |

Texas officeholders have .gov websites where they push out statements and list contact info for constituents. Dan Patrick's does a little bit more....Read More

Top