Bearing Witness
Alan Pogue has spent his life documenting progressive struggle. Along the way, he captured the history of the Observer, too.
Since 1954
Alan Pogue has spent his life documenting progressive struggle. Along the way, he captured the history of the Observer, too.
Only in Texas
Only in Texas
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
Sharing the latest dispatches from far-flung Texas.
Also introducing the winners of the TxO NextGen Scholars program.
Texas Democrats, not having won since Jimmy Carter, are a little afraid to dream.
Professional wrestling (and isn’t that a great oxymoron?) is our goal and role model.
“One theory of government is that it only reacts to a crisis; trouble comes when we cannot even agree on what a crisis is,” Ivins wrote in a 1995 column about Congress’ lukewarm response to the threat of global warming.