Issues Archive - The Texas Observer

May / June 2025

March / April 2025

January / February 2025

November / December 2024

September / October 2024

July / August 2024

May / June 2024

March / April 2024

The cover of the January/February 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine shows a stylized photo of a Latinxs woman shooting video on her smartphone as she holds it out the window of her car. Headline: La Gordiloca, Laredo’s citizen-journalist provocateur goes head-to-head with police in court, by Jason Buch. Other headlines: The Observer at 70, A longtime leader looks back at our best work, by Eva Ruth Moravec. The Lost Promise of Refuge Ranch, A treatment center for survivors of sex trafficking fails to meet its mission, by WIllow Higgins. Memorializing Juneteenth, A museum honoring the news of slavery’s end is in the works in Fort Worth, by James Russell. A Texas symbol reads “since 1954”.

January / February 2024

The cover of the November/December 2023 issue of Texas Observer magazine features an illustration of a shadowy "puppeteer"-type figure, using marionette strings to control protesters outside of a public school. The top headline is "The Radical Right's K-12 Takeover: Conservative consultants and PACS are turning Texas school board races into partisan battlegrounds, by Steven Monacellt." Other headlines: Safety Off by Michelle Pitcher, Deadly Toll Rod by Josephine Lee, and A&M's Liberal Purge by Gabriel Arana.

November / December 2023

The September/October 2023 issue of the Texas Observer features an illustration of a female-presenting person fearfully peeking over a windowsill at the "party house" across the street, a short-term rental with a raging crowd dancing, fighting, drinking, and dealing with the cops. The top story is "All the Scary Houses: Neighborhoods fight the giant companies pushing the short-term rental tidal wave". Other top stories include "Queens Defiant," "The Last Texan to Die in Afghanistan," and "Toppling Statues."

September / October 2023

The cover of the July/August issue depicts a cartoon wall made of paperwork, with a caricature of Greg Abbott at the top, adding more with a trowel. Migrants walk fearfully at the base of the paper "wall." Headline: Abbott's Border Wall Boondoggle by Justin Miller. Other headlines include "The Shape of Water to Come," "Sparse Justice in Texas," and "Deborah Mouton: Building Bridges with Her Words.”

July / August 2023