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Most Recent in Politics:

1Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

2State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

3Trump Nominee to FEC Tried to Shred Texas’ Already-Weak Ethics Laws

4Religious Right Takes Bathroom Fight Back to Schools after Defeat at Capitol

5Supreme Court Decision Means 2018 Elections Could Use ‘Discriminatory’ Maps

6Trump Nominates Lawyers from Anti-LGBT ‘Religious Freedom’ Group to be Texas Federal Judges

Most Recent in Environment:

1Reports of Livestock Deaths, Other Ag Losses Trickle in After Harvey

2Flood Expert Jim Blackburn: Houston Must Plan or Perish

3Experts: Much of Harvey-Related Air Pollution was Preventable

4‘Look & See’ Is a Love Letter to Family Farming, Rural America and Wendell Berry

5The Impossible City

6Thanks to their State Rep, Friendswood Family Rushes to File Insurance Claim for their Flooded Home

Most Recent in Border:

1Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

2ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

3‘Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico’s Drug War Isn’t About Drugs

5Salvadoran Man Seeks ‘Sanctuary’ from Deportation in Austin Church

6Judge Eviscerates Much of Senate Bill 4, but Leaves Intact “Show Me Your Papers” Provision

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Body Cam Policies in Texas Exacerbate a System Designed to Protect Police, Critics Say

2Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

3ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

4The Road to Huntsville

5In San Antonio, Cops Punch Down

6Deputies Go Unpunished for Invasive Cavity Search on Houston Roadside

Most Recent in Education:

1Despite ‘Hardship’ Funding, Rural Texas Schools Face Difficult Financial Future

2Loon Star State: Texas Public Schools

3Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

4Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

5After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

6Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

2State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

3Judge Temporarily Halts New Texas Abortion Ban

4Despite Self-Congratulation, Lawmakers Did Virtually Nothing about Maternal Mortality Crisis

5Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

6Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Malena’

2The King of Pulp

3‘Sip’ Seeks Dystopian Depth, and Fine Dining, in the Shadows

4The Rising Storm

5Stalking Horse

6Seven Texas Indie Booksellers on Their Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The King of Pulp

2Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1The Impossible City

2Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

3Stalking Horse

4Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

5Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

6Going It Alone

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

2Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

3Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

4Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

5Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

6Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Parallel Planes

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

4Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

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by Forrest Wilder

Introducing Our New Website

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Wed, Aug 26, 2015 |

Recently, I spent a few sentimental minutes — thanks to the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” — browsing the Observer’s website from the late ...Read More

Observer Nominated for National Magazine Award

Leave a comment | Thu, Mar 27, 2014

For the second consecutive year, a Texas Observer reporter is a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the most prestigious award in magazine journalism....Read More

Submit: 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest Now Open for Entries

2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest now open for entries

3 Comments | Thu, May 2, 2013

When Larry McMurtry agreed in 2011 to guest-judge The Texas Observer’s first short story contest, we at the magazine were thrilled: what better name to attach...Read More

Robert Leleux on Lawrence Wright

Leave a comment | Fri, Mar 15, 2013

As Wright is quick to point out, theology doesn’t have to make sense; there are aspects of any religion that can’t survive logical scrutiny. But even by tha...Read More

New and Noteworthy Books: February

Leave a comment | Mon, Feb 18, 2013

The Observer's periodic round-up of recent and forthcoming books by Texas authors, on Texas presses, or about Texas topics....Read More

A Few of Houston’s Accidental Gun Deaths

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Fri, Dec 21, 2012

The renewed debate over gun control has lately settled into two broad camps: those who think more guns in the right hands would reduce violence, and those who t...Read More

Perry’s “Fetal Pain” Bill Probably Wouldn’t Prevent Fetal Pain, Would Close Abortion Clinics

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Thu, Dec 13, 2012

There’s always womb for Rick Perry. On Tuesday, he alighted at The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center in Houston whose opening ribbon he cut in Septe...Read More

Screen grab of Joshua Gravens' Texas Department of Public Safety record.

by Emily DePrang

Josh Gravens, Subject of Observer Feature, Removed from Sex Offender Registry

Fri, Dec 7, 2012 |

The Texas Observer’s June cover story, “Life On the List,” looked at what happens when children are placed on Texas’ public sex offender registry. It ce...Read More

Tonight: the Observer Environmental Justice Road Show Comes to Houston

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Wed, Nov 28, 2012

Tonight, the Texas Observer’s own Melissa del Bosque will moderate a free public forum in Houston called “The True Cost of Environmental Justice.” At issu...Read More

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