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1Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2Four Takeaways from the Texas Democratic Convention

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4Growing Secular Movement Could Indicate Change in Political Tide — Even in Texas

5In a Blow to Local Government, Texas Supreme Court Strikes Down Plastic Bag Ordinances

6Texas Democrats Want to Turn Out Rural Voters, but What’s Their Plan?

Most Recent in Environment:

1Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

2How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

3Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

4Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

5No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

6Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

Most Recent in Border:

1Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

3Despite Trump’s Executive Order, This Mom Still Doesn’t Know if She’ll See Her 3 Kids Again

4Agentes de E.U. Impidieron Asilo a esta Familia. Después, Fueron Detenidos en México.

5U.S. Agents Blocked This Family from Seeking Asylum. Then Mexico Detained Them.

6It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

3In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

5Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

6Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

2New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

3Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

4‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

5What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

6Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

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1Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

3Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

5Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

6The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

Most Recent in Books:

1A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

2‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

3A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

4‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

5‘A Shout in the Ruins’ Contends with the South’s Violent History

6Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

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1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

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2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

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1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Multimedia stories

Protesters Rally at the Capitol

by Jen Reel | Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 18:21 CST

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

Larry Swearingen

by Jonathan McNamara

Observer Podcast Episode 21: Capital Punishment

Wed, Dec 12, 2012 |

In which discuss Alex Hannaford's recent piece about death row inmate Larry Swearingen then dive straight into the current state of capital punishment in Texas....Read More

Hillcrest, a neighborhood in Corpus Christi

by Jonathan McNamara

Observer Podcast 19: Reporting Kochworld

Fri, Nov 2, 2012 |

In this episode, I sit down with Observer staff writer Melissa del Bosque and multimedia editor Jen Reel to discuss the months of reporting work they put into ...Read More

Latricia Jones' son Dre'vyon needs daily breathing treatments to relieve his chronic asthma

Life On the Fence Line

Wed, Oct 24, 2012 |

Suffering from chronic illnesses and cancer, Corpus Christi residents can't afford to relocate. ...Read More

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