Most Recent in Politics:

1Border Residents Roast Plans For Trump’s Wall in Congressional Committee Now Led by Democrat

2One Casualty of the Government Shutdown: Low-Income Texans Who Need Housing Assistance

3Abbott, Patrick, Bonnen Quietly Vote to Remove Slavery-Denying Plaque from Texas Capitol

4Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape

5The Texas GOP May Actually Get Serious about Real Problems During this Legislature

6The Border Fence vs. Wall Debate is a ‘Trap’ for Democrats

Most Recent in Environment:

1Report: Power Plants are Leaking Cancer-Causing Toxins into Groundwater Across Texas

2The Border Fence vs. Wall Debate is a ‘Trap’ for Democrats

3TCEQ is Finally Doing Something About an East Texas Polluter

4The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

5Six Stories About Rural Texas You Should Read Before 2018 Ends

6The Strange, Record-Setting Weather Extremes Texans Faced in 2018

Most Recent in Border:

1Border Residents Roast Plans For Trump’s Wall in Congressional Committee Now Led by Democrat

2Audio: Border Patrol Plans to Light Up Butterfly Refuge Like a ‘War Zone’

4Trump’s Wall Is Coming to Texas. Meet Its First Victims.

5Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape

6The Border Fence vs. Wall Debate is a ‘Trap’ for Democrats

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1‘Ignored to Death’ in the Bexar County Jail

2The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

3Botham Jean’s Death Could Lead to an Overhaul of Police Oversight in Dallas

4When Prison Reform Goes Bad

5John Guandolo is on a Crusade to Turn Texas Cops Against Muslims

6State-Sanctioned Secrecy Shields Texas’ Death Penalty Machine from Scrutiny

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:

1The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

2Six Stories About Rural Texas You Should Read Before 2018 Ends

3‘How Can You Do This to People?’: After Rural Hospitals Close in Milam County, Residents Scramble to Find Care

4Four Texas Abortion Court Cases to Watch in 2019

5Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

6Struggling Rural Hospitals Say They’re Being Preyed Upon by Blue Cross Blue Shield

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

2The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

3Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

4Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

5Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

6Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

Most Recent in Books:

1The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

2‘Life Was Her Art’: Nadine Eckhardt Remembered as an Influential Cultural Conduit in Texas and Washington

3Our 10 Favorite Texas Books of 2018

4The Lone Star State Teems with Snakes, Lizards and Toads in ‘Herping Texas’

5Octavio Solis’ ‘Retablos’ Recounts a ‘Beautiful, Messy’ Youth on the Border

6‘When I Spoke in Tongues’ Chronicles a Long Walk Away from the Church

Most Recent in Features:

1The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

2Raspa Revolution

3100 Ways to Draw a Line

4Homeward Bound

5The Sisterhood

6The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

Most Recent in Essay:

1The Trouble with Yoga

2Heads in the Mud

3The Day the Windows Shook

4Women’s Work

5I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

6Somewhere It Hides a Well

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

2Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

3Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

4Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

5Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

6Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

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’

Loon Star State

Year in Review: Loon Star State in 2018

by Ben Sargent | Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:50 CST

The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.

Loon Star: Blue Wave

Ben Sargent on the 2018 midterms.

Wed, Nov 7, 2018 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Loon Star: Riff Raff

Ben Sargent on voter turnout.

Mon, Oct 29, 2018 |

To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Loon Star: Catching Up

Ben Sargent on the Texas Senate race.

Fri, Oct 19, 2018 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Loon Star: Ken Paxton and Scripture

Thu, Jul 26, 2018 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

immigration, border

Loon Star: Due Process

Ben Sargent on family separation and immigrant detention.

Tue, Jul 10, 2018 |

Ben Sargent To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

march for our lives, politics, texas legislature

Loon Star: Sudden Moves

Ben Sargent's take on the push by conservatives to arm teachers in response to school shootings.

Mon, Mar 26, 2018 |

To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

ben sargent, daca

Loon Star State: Dreamers

Wed, Feb 14, 2018 |

To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Loon Star State: Shame

Wed, Jan 17, 2018 |

To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here....Read More

Year in Review: Loon Star State

The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.

Wed, Dec 13, 2017 |

Top