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Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2The ‘Crazies’ Have Fully Taken Over the Texas GOP

3What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

4Southern Baptists Grapple with Their Own ‘Horrifying #MeToo Moment’

5Ted Cruz and State Republicans Make Clear: This is Trump’s Texas Now

6Ken Paxton: ‘The More We Talk About Gun Regulation, the More People Are Gonna Die’

Most Recent in Environment:

1Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

2How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

3Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

4Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

5No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

6Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

Most Recent in Border:

1It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration

2Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

3What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

5ICE Issues More Detainers in Texas, Withholds Crucial Data

6In Presidio, a New Public Art Project Crosses Borders

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

3In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

5Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

6Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

2Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

3‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

4What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

5Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

6Trump Administration Orders Refugee Shelters to Direct Pregnant Teens to Anti-Abortion Clinics

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

2Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

3Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

4Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

5The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

6The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

Most Recent in Books:

1A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

2‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

3A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

4‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

5‘A Shout in the Ruins’ Contends with the South’s Violent History

6Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

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2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

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6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

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Chapter 313 cover illustration

by Patrick Michels

Free Lunch

Forget about the governor’s slush funds. Texas’ biggest corporate welfare program is one you’ve probably never heard of — and it’s growing every year.

Mon, Mar 14, 2016 |

Texas' largest corporate welfare program lets school districts give away unlimited tax breaks — more than $7 billion so far — with only loose state oversigh...Read More

by Bill Minutaglio

To Each According to Greed: Rick Perry, Toyota and the Texas Enterprise Fund

Thu, Jun 12, 2014 |

The Texas Enterprise Fund is an under-scrutinized program that Texas’ mainstream media routinely ignores....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Rick Perry Seeks to Keep Details of Toyota Incentives Secret

Sun, Jun 1, 2014 |

Rick Perry’s office refuses to release any information about the $40 million it’s offering Toyota to relocate to Texas, despite providing the Observer with ...Read More

Rick Perry

by Forrest Wilder

Rick Perry Wasted $40 Million on Toyota

Fri, May 2, 2014 |

Rick Perry gave Toyota $40 million to relocate to Texas from California but a company executive says Toyota was coming anyway....Read More

Rick Perry

by Forrest Wilder

The Future of ‘Corporate Welfare’ in Texas after Rick Perry

Thu, Apr 24, 2014 |

Legislators are considering what to do with Rick Perry's big corporate subsidy funds that have been plagued by charges of cronyism and inefficiency....Read More

An artist rendering depicts a new Chevron tower (left).

by Forrest Wilder

How Chevron Plans to Spend $12 Million in Taxpayer Money

Thu, Nov 21, 2013 |

In June, Gov. Rick Perry announced that Chevron would be handed a $12 million grant to build a new office tower in Houston. Documents show that Chevron plans to...Read More

Oiling the Skids for Chevron in Houston

Perry's Texas Enterprise Fund coughs up $12 million for Chevron.

by Forrest Wilder

Mon, Jul 29, 2013

Chevron is one of the world’s largest corporations, earning more than $240 billion in revenue last year. CEO John Watson raked in almost $25 million in compen...Read More

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