Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

2Rural Voters Stepped on the Gas for Trump Across the Texas Oil Patch

3Local Organizers Explain the Republican Surge in South Texas

4A House Divided

5As Democrats Divebomb, the Texas Legislature Remains as White and Male as Ever

6Texas Democrats Thought 2020 Would Be a Banner Year. Instead, It Was a Catastrophe.

Most Recent in Environment:

1Texas Has Elected A Climate Change Denier to the Railroad Commission

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3Why is Michael Bloomberg Giving $2.6 Million to Elect a Railroad Commissioner in Texas?

4One Texas-Sized Loophole is Letting Lone Star Polluters Off the Hook

5Houston, Let People Walk

6Claiming Major Superfund ‘Success,’ Trump EPA Focused on Completing Cleanups, Not Climate Planning

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:

1Fort Bend County Will Soon Have Its First Black Sheriff Since Reconstruction

2How Texas Jails Avoid Investigations of Inmate Deaths

3I Left My Friends in Prison in a Pandemic. Here’s What It’s Like For Them.

4After the Deaths of Two Soldiers at Fort Hood, the Navajo Nation Wants Answers

5Trump’s Favorite Texas Sheriff Faces Re-Election Amid a Spike in Deaths at His Jail

6Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

Most Recent in Education:

1Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

2Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

3The New Ensemble

4Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

5Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

6‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

Most Recent in Health Care:

1After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

2For Families That Lost Loved Ones or Jobs to the Pandemic, Thanksgiving Carries an Extra Weight This Year

3How We Got Here

4A West Texas Nursing Home Sent Its COVID-Positive Residents Elsewhere. Now Two of Them Are Dead.

5The Forgotten Children of Texas

6I Left My Friends in Prison in a Pandemic. Here’s What It’s Like For Them.

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:

1The Flâneur of Downtown Dallas

2Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas

3How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

4A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession

5Improbable, Prophetic Houston

6Announcing the 2020 Insider Prize Winners

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:

1What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3What’s a Bookstore for?

4Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

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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:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Multimedia stories

by Michael Hardy

East Texas Photographer Captures 50 Years of Haunting, Ordinary Magic

Over and over, Keith Carter finds transcendence in scenes of everyday East Texas life.

Wed, Dec 12, 2018 |

Ordinary Magic Over and over, Keith Carter finds transcendence in scenes of everyday East Texas life. – by Michael Hardy December 12, 2018 Photographer Ke...Read More

Beto O'Rourke speaks to a crowd at a rally in 2018.

by Justin Miller

In Their Own Words: Why Texas Voters are Turning Out

A collection of some of the Texas voters we've encountered while covering the 2018 midterms, and what they have to say about Beto, Cruz, Trump and more.

Mon, Nov 5, 2018 |

by Justin Miller November 5, 2018 It’s been a whirlwind of an election season here in Texas. The race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke has attracted the g...Read More

Protesters Rally at the Capitol

Mon, Jul 1, 2013 |

It was the first day of a special legislative session like Texas has never seen. ...Read More

Priscilla Rappaport

Direct Quote: Flight of the Klavierbaumeister

Wed, Jun 12, 2013 |

Priscilla Rappaport is a master piano builder—a klavierbaumeister—and pilot based in Round Rock, TX. ...Read More

A Day at the Brownsville Academic Center

Tue, Jun 11, 2013 |

Brownsville Academic Center Principal Carlos Guerra leads us through a day at Brownsville school district's alternative school, known by locals as "the boot cam...Read More

Empty school

by Allison Smith

Eye On Texas: Empty Schools

Thu, May 16, 2013 |

Empty Texas schools intrigue me. The quiet spaces, the old water fountains and chalkboards, the big windows casting natural light....Read More

by Jonathan McNamara

Observer Podcast Episode 23: A Mid-Session Look at the Texas Legislature

Tue, Apr 9, 2013 |

Our legislative interns Olivia Messer and Liz Farmer join staff writer Patrick Michels, editor Dave Mann and I for a mid-session look at the 83rd Texas Legislat...Read More

Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists Interpret the Unthinkable in “Crónicas”

Fri, Feb 15, 2013 |

"Crónicas: Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists," uniquely interprets the drug war in Mexico through the eyes of seven young Mexican artists and photographers....Read More

Capitol

by Jonathan McNamara

Observer Podcast Episode 22: Getting a Lege Up

Fri, Feb 1, 2013 |

Observer staff writers Patrick Michels, Forrest Wilder and editor Dave Mann join the show for our first podcast about the 83rd Texas Legislature. What’s t...Read More

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