Strangest State: Robbers, Witches, and Sharks
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Forging Their Own Way: Kaye Northcott on Texas Observer History
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
Strangest State: Hello Possum, Goodbye Fish
Sharing the latest dispatches from far-flung Texas.
Texas Observer Announces Finalists in the 15th Annual MOLLY Journalism Prizes
Also introducing the winners of the TxO NextGen Scholars program.
Molly Ivins on Carrying Texas
Texas Democrats, not having won since Jimmy Carter, are a little afraid to dream.
Molly Ivins Wrestles With the ‘Infotainment’ Industry
Professional wrestling (and isn’t that a great oxymoron?) is our goal and role model.
Molly Ivins on Climate Change Deniers
“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.
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Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care
Politicians have been debating and dancing around universal health care for 25 years.
‘Consider What the Most Powerful Least Want You to Do, and then Do That’
In her keynote speech at the Observer’s 2019 MOLLY Prize dinner, Rebecca Traister argued that women’s anger has been silenced throughout history — and that daring to speak out is a powerful, subversive act.
Texas Observer Announces ProPublica’s Hannah Dreier as the 2019 MOLLY National Journalism Award Winner
Dreier’s work on “Trapped in Gangland” provides a “necessary dose of reality in a conversation dominated by the Trump administration’s fear-mongering,” the judges wrote.