Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1How Far Can Texas Democrats Take the Quorum Break?

2After Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer Partners Made Billions from the Deadly Texas Blackouts, He Gave $1 Million to Greg Abbott

3Texas House Republicans Vote to Track Down Absent Democrats and Arrest Them If Necessary

4Greg Abbott’s Summer Special Session Sideshow

5Texans With Disabilities Fear Voting Will Get Harder for Them as Special Session on GOP Restrictions Nears

Most Recent in Environment:

1In West Texas, Astronomers Worry About Growing Oilfield Light Pollution

2After Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer Partners Made Billions from the Deadly Texas Blackouts, He Gave $1 Million to Greg Abbott

3Communities of Color in Houston Will Face Another Hurricane Season Without Adequate Flood Control

4“People Are Wiped Out”: Costs Pile Up as Hurricane Season Begins

5In the Drill Zone, Children’s Health Is Looking Bleak

6The Unlikely Demise of Texas’ Biggest Corporate Tax Break

Most Recent in Border:

1Moments From the Reopening of Balmorhea Pool

2Undocumented Immigrants Continue to Be Expelled From the U.S. Under Title 42 COVID-19 Measures

3Follow the Money

4Siguiendo La Ruta Del Dinero

5Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

6‘Not Celebrating Yet’: South Texans Wait for Biden to Cancel Trump’s Wall

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1In Memory of Santos Rodriguez

2Home, But Not Free: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Adjusts to Her Release From Prison

3A Wrongful Execution in Texas Points to the Fallibility of the Death Penalty

4Mentally Ill and Sentenced to Death

5An Irreversible Sentence

6Yet Again, Texas Lawmakers Face Crisis Conditions in Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1Resignation Letter

2The Unlikely Demise of Texas’ Biggest Corporate Tax Break

3Texas Educators Worry Bill Limiting the Teaching of Current Events and Historic Racism Would “Whitewash History”

4‘I Felt Like They Were Demonizing My People’: Advocates and Families Point to Biases in Texas Curricula

5The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

6Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The People’s Scientist

2Profit Before Patient

3Texas Expands Access to Medical Cannabis—But Advocates Say It’s Not Enough

4In the Drill Zone, Children’s Health Is Looking Bleak

5Editorial: Even ‘Turning Texas Blue’ Won’t Fix Us If We Don’t Face Some Hard Truths

6Portraits of the Pandemic: Part Two

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:

1In ‘Al Norte,’ a Through Line of Transience That Is Still True Today

2A Feminist Rewrite of Lot

3‘Forget the Alamo’ Unravels a Texas History Made of Myths, or Rather, Lies

4‘On Juneteenth’ Refuses Easy Answers About the Importance of People of Color to Texas History

5‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’ Tours Dark Places That Are Hard to Call Home

6Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents

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:

1An Irreversible Sentence

2Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

3What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

4Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

5What’s a Bookstore for?

6Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

3Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

4Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Late Night at the Lege’

2‘My Cousin Dies, Like a Deer, On the Side of the Road’

3Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

4Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

5Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

6Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

Articles tagged: Koch Brothers

by Naveena Sadasivam and Jordan Sigler

Hostile Takeover

How the Koch brothers and their libertarian allies pushed their way into Texas Tech — and used public funds to do it.

Mon, Sep 26, 2016 |

How the Koch brothers and their libertarian allies pushed their way into Texas Tech — and used public funds to do it....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

The New Prosperity Gospel

At the group's convention in Dallas, Americans For Prosperity showed us—just maybe—the future of American conservatism.

Mon, Sep 8, 2014 |

Americans For Prosperity wants to push America's cacophonous conservative grassroots more firmly toward free-market advocacy—in Dallas, we saw how....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

The Money Behind Texas’ Most Influential Think Tank

Mon, Jan 6, 2014 |

What do you call a group of ideologues that collects millions from corporations and billionaires and then churns out studies and policy papers used by politicia...Read More

by Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg

State Conservative Groups Plan US-Wide Assault on Education, Health and Tax

Thu, Dec 5, 2013 |

Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, incom...Read More

Koch Comes After the Observer

Koch Industries site calls our story 'dishonest' and 'distorted'.

Wed, Oct 31, 2012

“Kochworld” profiles the fenceline communities bordering the Koch and Citgo-owned refineries in Corpus. Melissa del Bosque and Jen Reel spent months intervi...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

Hillcrest, a neighborhood in Corpus Christi

by Melissa del Bosque and Jen Reel

Kochworld

To see how the Koch brothers’ free-market utopia operates, look no further than Corpus Christi.

Wed, Oct 24, 2012 |

Until her son got sick, Latricia Jones never thought much about the air she breathes or who was polluting it. At 31, she’d spent nearly her e...Read More

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