Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1“Election Integrity” or Voter Intimidation?

2The Lege This Week: Instead of Addressing Mass Shootings, Lawmakers Expand Gun Rights

3The Lege This Week: Stimmy for Schools?

4The Lege This Week: Elections and Abortions and Grid-Reforms, Oh My!

5The Lege This Week: “Another Watershed Moment”

6The Lege This Week: GOP Launches Election Crackdown

Most Recent in Environment:

1ERCOT Asked Texans to Conserve Power as Electric Grid Again Struggled to Keep Up with Demand

2One Researcher’s Quest to Quantify the Environmental Cost of Abandoned Oil Wells

3Waves of Abandonment

4‘No Teeth and No Funding’: How Regulators Failed to Police the Oil Industry

5Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

6Nobody Warned Texans About the Public Health Risks of the Winter Storm

Most Recent in Border:

1Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

2‘Not Celebrating Yet’: South Texans Wait for Biden to Cancel Trump’s Wall

3How Texas Courts Went Virtual

4In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents

5Forgotten for Over a Century, Border Hero Jovita Idár Is Rediscovered by Her Hometown of Laredo

6Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocketed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1How Flawed Death Investigations Can Leave Texas COVID-19 Deaths Uncounted

2Editorial: Defund the Constables

3Uninvestigated, Uncounted: How Justices of the Peace Miss Important Clues in Death Investigations

4Clogged Toilets, Snow Inside: How the Winter Storm Exacerbated Problems in Texas Lock-Ups

6Exploring the Rise, Fall, and Lingering Trauma of the Death Penalty in Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

2Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

3Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

4The New Ensemble

5Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

6Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Portraits of the Pandemic: Part Two

2Editorial: Texas Wasn’t Prepared for the Statewide Vaccine Rush

3COVID-19’s Deadly Toll on Texas Workers

4COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas

5After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

6For Families That Lost Loved Ones or Jobs to the Pandemic, Thanksgiving Carries an Extra Weight This Year

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

2Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents

2Writer Rick Bass Fights for 20 Grizzly Bears

3‘Luz at Midnight’ Reimagines Blackouts, Polar Vortexes, and Environmental Justice in San Antonio

4Lady Bird Johnson Was About More Than Wildflowers

5“Wings of Ebony” Brings Black Girl Magic to Life

6A New Book Celebrates the Work of Architect John S. Chase

Most Recent in Features:

1How to Die in Texas

2Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

2What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

3Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

4What’s a Bookstore for?

5Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

6In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

3Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

4Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

2Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

3Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6Parallel Planes

Articles tagged: sexual abuse

by Andrea Grimes

‘Last Woman Standing’ Tackles Toxic Masculinity and Keeps the Pages Turning

Amy Gentry’s second crime novel shines with meticulous plotting, complex characters and a subversive feminist message.

Mon, Jan 28, 2019 |

Ask any member of the local comedy scene, and they might tell you they’re surprised it’s taken so long for the annual Funniest Person in Austin stand-up con...Read More

The entrance to the 500-bed Karnes County Residential Center for detained immigrant moms and kids.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

‘She Lives in Fear,’ Not in El Salvador, but in Texas Detention

Texas wants to license immigrant detention centers for child care, but two families say the privately run facilities aren't as safe as the state claims.

Tue, May 10, 2016 |

Texas wants to license immigrant detention centers for child care, but two families say the privately run facilities aren't as safe as the state claims....Read More

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

New Analysis Highlights Prevalence of Sexual Assault In Texas

Tue, Apr 28, 2015 |

A new analysis released this week shows that 413,000 Texans have experienced some form of sexual assault in the past year, and multiple measures related to sexu...Read More

Jenn Hassin, photographed at her studio at Big Medium in Austin.

by Alex Hannaford

Hope After Violence

Women veterans are twice as likely as men to experience PTSD. We just don’t talk about it.

Wed, Jun 4, 2014 |

Women are twice as likely as men to experience PTSD. We just don’t talk about it....Read More

Harris County Jail Among Worst for Inmate Sexual Assault

Mon, Jul 1, 2013 |

A massive new study by the U.S. Department of Justice ranked more than 350 jails by the rate of sexual abuse reported by their prisoners. Houston’s Harris Cou...Read More

The Corsicana Residential Treatment Center

by Patrick Michels

One in 10 Kids Locked Up in Texas Report Sexual Abuse

But TJJD says internal numbers don't support results of federal survey.

Wed, Jun 19, 2013 |

More than 11 percent of juveniles locked up in Texas' state-run facilities reported being sexually victimized in the last year, according to a new report from t...Read More

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