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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.
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.
Fearless and Funny, Molly Ivins Comes to Life in ‘Raise Hell’
If only she were around today.
Molly Ivins on Roe v. Wade
With President Trump set to nominate another conservative justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion-rights activists worry about the future of Roe v. Wade. Molly Ivins wrote this piece in the aftermath of the 1973 landmark ruling establishing a woman's right to abortion.