Since 1954
State law requires parents, educators, police, and administrators to be a part of district safety committees, but not the kids who are expected to recognize and report danger.
52 bills, and counting. This current legislative session is Texas’s most brazen attempt to eradicate our state’s LGBTQ+ community.
A pair of bills, SB 147 and SB 711, could restrict people like the author's father from owning property, based on where he was born.
Smuggling bones. Horses with tail lights. Alcoholic seltzer goes aerial. Just another day in far-flung Texas.
Is Ron DeSantis running the Lone Star State?
Vouchers and property tax cuts strike at a public school system already hemorrhaging hard-working employees.
Cheryl Wattley helped free Richard Miles, who spent more than a decade in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
As the Texas Observer survives to muckrake another day, Steven Monacelli highlights the battle for fundamental rights happening in the Lone Star State.
Queendom, a documentary that recently premiered at the SXSW film festival, should leave viewers—especially LGBTQ+ viewers—shaken.
Doctors are left to guess at whether helping their patients will land them in prison.