Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas’ Presidential Candidates Break Out Briefly During the Democratic Debate

2Texas Leads in Polling Place Closures Since 2013

3Senator Lucio Draws Serious Primary Challenge

4As Texodus Continues, Tom DeLay’s Tall Political Shadow Fades

5They Persisted

6‘Mistakes Were Made’: Greg Abbott’s Non-Denial Denial on Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Most Recent in Environment:

1How Texas Prairies Could Help Combat Climate Change

2Julián Castro’s Climate Plan Addresses Environmental Racism

3Two Houston Archives Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

4The Environmental Protection Agency Wants to Repeal its Methane Emissions Limits

5In Houston, Thousands Continue to Wait for Harvey Relief Money

6Two Years After Hurricane Harvey, Port Arthur Remains in Disaster Recovery Limbo

Most Recent in Border:

1The Trump Administration Blows Its Border Wall Budget in South Texas

2Journalists Blocked from Attending Secretive Immigration Tent Courts

3‘El Paso Firme’ Music Festival Calls on Texans to Peacefully Resist White Supremacy

4Thousands Have Disappeared Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border. They Deserve to be Remembered.

5Starr County Proposes Alternative Border Wall Plan

6Binational Community Struggles to Help Migrants Under ‘Remain in Mexico’

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1‘A Watershed Moment’ for Bail Reform in Harris County

2Ken Paxton Wants ‘Ultimate Home Field Advantage’ in Felony Case

3The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Keep Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases

4A Poor Defense

5Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

6Death of Dog Trainer Highlights Strenuous Heat and Working Conditions at Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1The Cost of Carve-Outs

2Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

3Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

4‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

5‘We’re Not Stupid’: Texas Teachers Take on Dan Patrick and the Legislature over Dismal Education Funding

6In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

Most Recent in Health Care:

1American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

2Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

3‘My Congregation Trusts Women’: Progressive Faith Groups Counter Anti-Abortion Narratives

4A Texas Anti-Abortion Group Dramatically Missed its Family Planning Targets. Now its Founder is Suing the Federal Government for More Money.

5Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

6The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

Most Recent in The Interview:

1If a Glacier Melts in the Arctic, the Texas Coast Feels It

2Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

3The Dissenter

4The Interview: Mass Resistance

5Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

6Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

Most Recent in Books:

1How Earl Campbell Changed Football in Texas

2American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

3‘The Secrets We Kept’ is a Finely-Structured Story of Secrets, Spies, and Secretaries

4‘The Weil Conjectures’ Rewards the Intellectually Adventurous

5‘Black Light’ is a Weird, Wonderful Fever Dream of a Book

6A Riveting New History of an Ancient West Texas Canyon

Most Recent in Features:

1Little Arthouse on the Prairie

2The Clothes that Make the Man

3Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

4Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

5At Home in the World

6Plight at the Museum

Most Recent in Essay:

1To Understand the El Paso Massacre, Look to the Long Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence at the Border

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3The Trouble with Yoga

4Heads in the Mud

5The Day the Windows Shook

6Women’s Work

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

2Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

3Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

4Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

5Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

6Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

5Options

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

Tag Archives: Loon Star State

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Loon Star: Thanks for the Little People

And their sales taxes.

Mon, May 13, 2019 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Loon Star State: The Heart of Texas

Wed, Sep 6, 2017 |

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ben Sargent's latest 'toon celebrates the volunteers who stepped up after Hurricane Harvey....Read More

Loon Star State: Dan Patrick’s Senate

Thu, Aug 10, 2017 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons, visit our Loon Star State section....Read More

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Loon Star State: Obsessed

The so-called bathroom bill will be considered by a Senate committee on March 7.

Wed, Mar 1, 2017 |

In February's Loon Star State, award-winning cartoonist Ben Sargent illustrates the Texas GOP's obsession with bathrooms. The so-called bathroom bill will be co...Read More

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Year in Review: Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State

Wed, Dec 21, 2016 |

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Loon Star State: ‘Shine Boy’

Tue, Dec 20, 2016 |

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Loon Star State: Trump and the ‘Rigged Election’

Tue, Nov 22, 2016 |

In Loon Star State: Trump cried foul before the elections even happened. But it was his own party that's made a habit of putting fingers on the scale....Read More

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Loon Star State: ‘More Lipstick!’

Thu, Oct 20, 2016 |

In October's Loon Star State, award-winning cartoonist Ben Sargent imagines the Texas GOP's mighty struggle to doll up Donald Trump....Read More

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Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

Tue, Sep 27, 2016 |

In this month's award-winning Loon Star State cartoon by Ben Sargent, a post-'Dancing with the Stars' Rick Perry goes looking for a new gig — again. ...Read More

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