Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas Lawmaker Sponsors Far-Right Rally Against ‘Far-Left Violence’

2‘Stalwart Battler for Justice’: Remembering Babe Schwartz (1926-2018)

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4How Anti-Abortion Activists are Training Their ‘Next Generation of Pro-Life Leaders’

5In New ‘Spray Box’ Decision, Sid Miller Dances Himself Right Back to Where He Started

6The Christian Right’s Politics of Cruelty

Most Recent in Environment:

1In a Warming World, the Fight for Water Can Push Nations Apart — or Bring Them Together

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4The Day the Windows Shook

5As Development Transforms the Hill Country, a Sand Mining Operation Worries Residents

6Report: Oil and Gas Production Is Making People Sick in Rural Texas

Most Recent in Border:

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2100 Ways to Draw a Line

3Texas Congressman Demands Answers from ICE about Van Crash, Misinformation

4ICE Estrelló una Camioneta Llena de Madres Separadas, Después Negó que Haya Sucedido

5ICE Crashed a Van Full of Separated Mothers, Then Denied It Ever Happened

6A Time for Radical Thinking

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1In Texas, 3 Out of 4 County Jail Inmates Haven’t Been Convicted of a Crime

2Who Gets Mercy on Death Row? Chris Young’s Execution Raises Questions of Racial Bias

3Zero-Tolerance Policies Meant to Protect Against School Threats May Lead to Misguided Arrests

4Legislation to Abolish ICE Indicates Movement is Gaining Mainstream Traction

5College Degree Options Are Disappearing for Women in Texas Prisons

6After Years of Working with ‘Ritmo’ Detainees, I Know the Inhumane Facility Doesn’t Deserve a Second Chance

Most Recent in Education:

1In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

2Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

3Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

4What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

5SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

6Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

Most Recent in Health Care:

1How Anti-Abortion Activists are Training Their ‘Next Generation of Pro-Life Leaders’

2Professor Trill

3Tinkering with the Human Heart in ‘Ticker’

4Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

5Will Hurricane Harvey Recovery Sink or Save a Texas City Already Fighting for Survival?

6Documentary Follows a Family’s Fight to Change Texas Law that Turned Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman into an ‘Incubator’

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

3Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

5Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

6The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

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1‘American Hate’ Author on Hate Crimes, Free Speech and Alex Jones

2‘I Can’t Date Jesus’ Chronicles Growing up Black, Queer and Catholic in Houston

3Tinkering with the Human Heart in ‘Ticker’

4In ‘Homelands,’ Alfredo Corchado Punctures the Myth of the American Dream

5Announcing the Eighth Annual Observer Short Story Contest

6A Vampire Book That Does Not Suck

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

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

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1The Day the Windows Shook

2Women’s Work

3I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

4Somewhere It Hides a Well

5Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

6The Road to Huntsville

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1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

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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’

Tag Archives: Texas Republican Party

Loon Star State: Donald’s Hair

Fri, Jul 8, 2016 |

In this edition of Ben Sargent's award-winning cartoon, Loon Star State, Texas Republicans trek through the grim wilderness of the Donald's coiffure....Read More

by Andrea Grimes

The Texas Miracle #7: The Sound of Secession

From the Texas GOP convention, we go to the floor for a debate over secession and seek answers to that mind-melding question: Why would anyone support Donald Trump?

Sun, May 15, 2016 |

From the Texas GOP convention, we go to the floor for a debate over secession, and seek answers to the question: Why would Texas Republicans support Trump?...Read More

Ken Paxton

by Christopher Hooks

That Sinking Feeling

Is indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton a political aberration or a symptom of a larger sickness?

Mon, Aug 31, 2015 |

Ken Paxton’s rapid ascent from state representative to state senator and then to the attorney general’s office in the span of just three years has been an o...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Lawman, Lawbreaker: Ken Paxton and the Problem with One-Party Rule

Fri, Aug 1, 2014 |

Come next year, Texas might have an attorney general who faces disbarment and felony indictment. What does the state get without a healthy two-party system? Ken...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

The Texas GOP’s Sara Legvold Problem

She's a nearly bottomless fountain of paranoid racism. So why has she been allowed to play such a prominent role in the Texas GOP?

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 |

How to explain what happened with the state GOP’s platform last Saturday, and recent trends in the party? Ask Sara Legvold....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Backs to the Future 

At the Texas Republican Party’s convention in Fort Worth, it’s 2010 again.  

Sat, Jun 7, 2014 |

At the Republican Party of Texas' 2014 convention, delegates undid one of their biggest achievements from 2012—and left some big issues on the table....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Gays, Guns and Guest Workers: The Republican Convention

Thu, Jun 5, 2014 |

At the Texas Republican Party's convention in Fort Worth, a changing of the guard....Read More

A Restaurateur Has a Thing (or Two) to Teach the GOP About Immigration Reform

by Melissa del Bosque

Mon, Feb 4, 2013

The Texas Republican Party could learn a thing or two from the hospitality business. “At one of my restaurants, if I were to turn my back on my customers or t...Read More

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