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The Impossible City
Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son
I’ll tell my son as he gets older that his experience of gender is on the margins of society. But that’s all right; lots of great stuff happens on the margins.
Dear Governor Abbott, Not long ago, my kids and I spent five nights camping in Big Bend. We had a great spot for our little pop-up camper right next to the Rio ...Read More
Stalking Horse
Inside a rookie FBI agent’s quest to take down a brutal drug cartel’s American horse-racing empire.
Stalking Horse Inside a rookie FBI agent’s quest to take down a brutal drug cartel’s American horse-racing empire. In her new book, Bloodlines: The True Sto...Read More
Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas
After SB 4, Texans should support immigration and boycott conventions, conferences and major sports events.
The time has come for us Texans to promote an economic boycott of our state until the misnamed “anti-sanctuary” law, Senate Bill 4, is repealed an...Read More
Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump
Wearing my hijab in Houston has always been complicated. In the Trump era, that's truer than ever.
Sometimes a piece of fabric is just a piece of fabric. Not so the hijab, the head cover worn by many Muslim women like myself. The hijab is a conversation start...Read More
Going It Alone
More than 40 percent of Texas families living in poverty are single-mother households.
courtesy Sarah Angle My 5-year-old daughter sits at the table, rocking back and forth in a rickety chair I should have replaced years ago. Peas and other discar...Read More
The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics
It’s long past time in Texas for straight talk, starting with the blunt facts about the nullity the Texas Democratic Party has become.
Illustration by Adam Maida The presidency of Donald Trump is an emergency for the United States. Now is the time for each ethics-seeking American citizen to fig...Read More
A Texan’s Political Guide to Resisting Trump
Activism isn’t always grand or heroic. There is no task too small or out of reach.
A Houston activist outlines a strategy for resisting Trump in Texas....Read More
The Resistance Against Donald Trump Begins in Texas
The progressive movement in Texas must take bold action to inspire the residents of our cities to become part of the Trump resistance.
Texans are by and large more progressive than their state politicians. They must continue a long tradition of resistance to help stop Trump....Read More
What a 1940 Novel Can Teach Us About Fighting Trump
We cannot be passive in the face of great peril.
If you want to understand the moral circumstances that Americans face in the dawning Trump era, you could do worse than The Ox-Bow Incident......Read More