Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1The Next Census Could Determine the Future of Port Arthur

2Texas Had a State Office That Could Have Investigated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases. Lawmakers Defunded it Three Years Ago.

3The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

4‘I’m in Limbo Here’: Texans Are Met with an Overwhelmed and Antiquated State Unemployment System

5A ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order by Any Other Name

6The New U.S. Food Safety Czar is a Texas Researcher with Close Ties to the Meat Industry

Most Recent in Environment:

1Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

2City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

3Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

4COVID-19 is Buying Time for Gulf Coast Towns Fighting Oil and Gas Projects

5COVID-19 Could Be a ‘Double Whammy’ for Those in Pollution Hotspots

6Coronavirus is Exposing the Faulty Foundations of the Texas Fracking Industry

Most Recent in Border:

2Along the Border, Witnesses of Smuggling Crimes Are Being Held in Detention, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

3In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

4U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on ‘Remain in Mexico’

5Following a Protest, ICE Moves Asylum-Seekers For the Second Time in Two Weeks

6Trump’s Wall May Have to Avoid Multiple Historic Cemeteries

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Why Is APD Responding to Mental Health Crises like Violent Crimes?

3How COVID-19 Upended Texas Prisons

4Texas Health Officials Undercount COVID-19 Cases by Excluding Some Prisoners Who Tested Positive

5The Disappeared

6Greg Abbott’s Power Grab on Bail Reform

Most Recent in Education:

1Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

2Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

3‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

4The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

5The Cost of Carve-Outs

6Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Battling COVID-19, and the Governor, as Texas Reopens

2With Storage Space Evaporating, the Oil and Gas Industry Will Get to Put Its Products Back Underground

3Home Wasn’t Safe. Then COVID-19 Made It Seem Like the Only Option.

4Is Texas Inflating Its COVID-19 Testing Numbers by Including Antibody Tests?

5Texas Has Stopped Kicking Thousands of Kids Off Medicaid Each Month During the Pandemic, but Advocates Point to Delays for New Enrollees

6Texas Health Officials Undercount COVID-19 Cases by Excluding Some Prisoners Who Tested Positive

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

3Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

4Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

Most Recent in Books:

1Lawrence Wright Embraces Pandemic Panic in ‘The End of October’

2Is it Time to Rethink Texas Suburbia?

3What’s a Bookstore for?

4In ‘All I Ever Wanted,’ Kathy Valentine Reclaims Her Narrative

5A New Book on the Sutherland Springs Shooting Explores Resilience, Forgiveness, and Grace

6‘Trust Me’ Tackles Politics, Power, and Perception

Most Recent in Features:

2San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

3The Ghosts of Jefferson

4Little Arthouse on the Prairie

5The Clothes that Make the Man

6Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

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2What’s a Bookstore for?

3Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

4In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

5Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

6‘Cheer’ Takes an Overlooked Sport Off the Sidelines

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

2Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

3Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

5Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Tag Archives: Republicans

Members of the Texas Chapter of ADAPT celebrate the United States Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in front of the Texas Capitol.

by Melissa del Bosque

Q&A with Rep. John Zerwas on Lege Failure to Pass Healthcare Expansion

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 |

Medicaid expansion isn’t just about money; it’s also about lives....Read More

Republican Redistricting Theory

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 |

Immigration Bills Going Nowhere this Legislative Session

by Melissa del Bosque

Wed, Mar 27, 2013

What a difference an election makes. Two years ago, Governor Rick Perry made the ban on sanctuary cities a legislative priority, and state Rep. Debbie Riddle (R...Read More

Kay Bailey Hutchison

by Cindy Casares

Republicans Flirt With Immigration Reform Again

Fri, Nov 30, 2012 |

Every so often, the GOP is beaten badly enough that some Republicans realize that appearing to support immigrants might be their ticket to relevancy with Latino...Read More

by Eileen Smith

Texas Democrats, Make Your Move

Fri, Nov 16, 2012 |

Forget about the great GOP awakening. Now is the perfect time for Texas Democrats to figure out what the hell they’re doing. The default explanation for their...Read More

Texas Republicans’ Reaction to the Election: Buy Guns, Secede

by Forrest Wilder

Thu, Nov 8, 2012

How did Texas Republicans react to Obama and the national Democrats' very good night? By hailing Texas as the conservative Shangri-La that will show the nation ...Read More

Democrat Pete Gallego won a hotly contested race against Republican Francisco Canseco

by Melissa del Bosque

Texas’ GOP Loses Ground with Hispanic Candidates

Wed, Nov 7, 2012 |

A day after the presidential election, even Republican strategists agree that Mitt Romney blew it with Latino voters and that the GOP has some serious soul sear...Read More

Eva Church has voted for the Democratic Party in every presidential election since immigrating to the United States in 1948.

by Emily Mathis

Faces of the Election

Tue, Nov 6, 2012 |

Eva Church immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1948 at age 18. She quickly became a citizen, and has since voted for the Democratic Party in eve...Read More

Is Poll-Watching Voter Suppression? Greg Abbott Says, ‘No—Wait, Yes!’

Fri, Oct 26, 2012

Dateline Houston is confused. Texas Republicans are passionately concerned about so-called voter integrity. Ensuring this integrity has spurred legislation, cou...Read More

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