Most Recent in Politics:

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2The Midterms Trigger a Seismic Shift in Harris County’s Courts

3Trump’s Sabotage of ACA Enrollment Is Particularly Dangerous in Texas

4Texas is a Purple State Now. The Proof is in Last Night’s Results.

5Loon Star: Blue Wave

6The Disconnect Between Ted Cruz’s Victory Speech and What Actually Happened in Texas

Most Recent in Environment:

1In East Texas, Chicken Plants are Polluting Rivers and Lakes with Oxygen-Sucking Contaminants

2Why Environmental Groups Are Salty on Corpus Christi’s Pricey Desalination Plan

3Despite Trump and Rick Perry’s Best Efforts, Another Coal Plant Eats the Dust in Texas

4Exxon Appears to Mislead State to Secure Tax Break

5After the Flood, the Political Storm?

6Government Asks Court for More Time To Fix Houston’s Decades-Long Sewage Problem

Most Recent in Border:

2Border Residents Protest Trump’s Wall in Hidalgo County

3AUDIO: Melissa del Bosque and Rachel Poser on Border Patrol’s Unchecked Mission Creep

4More Than 150 Families Separated at the Border Remain Locked Up in Texas

5U.S. and Mexican Officials Collaborating to Stop Asylum-Seekers, Attorneys Allege

6Checkpoint Nation

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1The Midterms Trigger a Seismic Shift in Harris County’s Courts

2Harris County Judges May Face a Reckoning Over Bail On Election Day

3Dallas County’s Cop-Convicting DA Is Among the Most Vulnerable Down-Ballot Republicans This Election

4Author Shane Bauer on How the Racist Roots of Private Prisons Still Permeate the System

5In Arlington, How Not to Respond to a Police Shooting

6Texas Prisons Lead the Nation in Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Most Recent in Education:

1In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

2Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

3Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

4What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

5SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

6Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Trump’s Sabotage of ACA Enrollment Is Particularly Dangerous in Texas

2In the Rio Grande Valley, New Citizens Turn Out to Vote for the First Time

3We Support Pre-Existing Condition Protections, Say Republicans Who’ve Repeatedly Tried to Eliminate Them

4Meet Mikael Love, the OB-GYN Who Doesn’t Prescribe Birth Control

5Without Planned Parenthood, Almost Half the Providers in Texas’ Women’s Health Program Saw No Patients

6Texas Ends Contracts for Anti-Abortion Group Tapped to Provide Women’s Health Services

Most Recent in The Interview:

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2The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

3Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

4Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

5Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

6Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

Most Recent in Books:

1‘Beyoncé in Formation’ is a Texas Professor’s Love Letter to Queen B

2Author Shane Bauer on How the Racist Roots of Private Prisons Still Permeate the System

3Best of the 2018 Texas Book Festival: An Observer Staff Guide

4An Evocative New Memoir of Nature and Loss Never Quite Gets Off the Ground

5Listen to Survivors, Urges a New Book of Essays on Injustice

6Burn It All Down

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2100 Ways to Draw a Line

3Homeward Bound

4The Sisterhood

5The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

Most Recent in Essay:

1Heads in the Mud

2The Day the Windows Shook

3Women’s Work

4I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

5Somewhere It Hides a Well

6Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

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2Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

3Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

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Most Recent in Poetry:

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’

Slideshows

Eye on Texas: Bhutanese Refugees

by Mary Kang | Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 15:34 CST

State of Texas — solar power

by Forrest Wilder

State of Texas: The Future’s So Bright You Gotta Wear Shades

Thu, Aug 13, 2015 |

In the last decade or so, renewable power has become increasingly competitive with fossil fuels — and is even cheaper than coal and natural gas in many parts ...Read More

by Laura Buckman

Eye on Texas: Flex Time

Thu, Aug 6, 2015 |

Combining her own experience and the access she has as a photographer, Laura Buckman embarks on her dream assignment, depicting what it's like for inmates to pr...Read More

Eye on Texas: Light/Rain

Tue, Jul 21, 2015 |

Photographer Jay Lee captured this image of the evening rain that came in a torrent May 26....Read More

Eye on Texas: Hot Fun in the Summertime

Thu, Jun 25, 2015 |

As part of her series "Bitche$ on a Budget," Austin-based photographer Sarah Lim shows that one cheap way to beat the Texas heat is crashing apartment-complex p...Read More

by Joe Cutbirth

State of Texas: Who We Kill

Tue, Jun 23, 2015 |

According to data collected by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, an unsurprising trend has emerged among death row inmates, the majority of whom are bla...Read More

Eye on Texas: Cowboys & Cul-De-Sacs

Tue, May 19, 2015 |

In what began as an assignment for the San Antonio Express-News, “Cowboys & Cul-de-Sacs” tells the story of Helotes, a small town just outside of San...Read More

UT Austin Petawatt Laser

by Robert Shults

Eye on Texas: UT-Austin’s Petawatt Laser

Three stories beneath the University of Texas, the Texas Petawatt Laser produces the most powerful laser pulse anywhere in the world.

Mon, Apr 27, 2015 |

Once the most powerful laser in the world, the Texas Petawatt Laser lies beneath the University of Texas, and continues to awe scientists around the world....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

State of Texas: How Truancy Is Turning Kids into Criminals

Fri, Apr 24, 2015 |

The truancy system in Texas proves that sometimes the best intentions have the worst consequences. A law designed to keep kids in school is now responsible for ...Read More

by Patrick Michels and Forrest Wilder

State of Texas: Taking Stock of Prison Reform

Tue, Apr 14, 2015 |

While criminal justice reform efforts in Texas have gotten lots of positive press, incarceration trends are complex. ...Read More

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