Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1Historic Runoff Turnout Sets Stage for Texas Democrats in 2020’s ‘Biggest Battleground’

2Amid a National Reckoning Over Racial Injustice, Royce West Seeks to Upset MJ Hegar—and the DSCC

3Doctors Reverse Course, Say Texas GOP Should Cancel In-Person Convention

4The Next Census Could Determine the Future of Port Arthur

5Texas Had a State Office That Could Have Investigated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases. Lawmakers Defunded it Three Years Ago.

6The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

Most Recent in Environment:

1In Houston’s Fifth Ward, the Storm Never Stops

2How Texas Lawmakers and Industry Have Weakened Citizens’ Rights to Fight Pollution

3Texas Relaxed Environmental Enforcement During the Pandemic, State Data Show

4Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

5City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

6Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

Most Recent in Border:

1El Paso Remembered

2Back to the Wall

3Between Borders

5Along the Border, Witnesses of Smuggling Crimes Are Being Held in Detention, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

6In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1In Harris County, A Group is Working to Expand Voting Access in Jails

2Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

3How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell?

4Reform vs. Rebuild: Defunding Law Enforcement in Texas

5As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Some Incarcerated People Remain Behind Bars After Making Bail

6A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

Most Recent in Education:

1The New Ensemble

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

4‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

6The Cost of Carve-Outs

Most Recent in Health Care:

1One of Texas’ Biggest Nursing Home Operators Beset By COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

2Telehealth Could be Great, if Texans Had Access to It

3Texas Nursing Home Residents Were Already at Risk. Then COVID-19 Hit.

4Neglected in Care

5COVID-19 is Surging in Rural Texas, Threatening to Overwhelm Local Hospitals

6He Removed Labels That Said ‘Medical Use Prohibited,’ Then Tried to Sell Thousands of Masks to Officials Who Distribute to Hospitals

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

3Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

4Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

Most Recent in Books:

1Improbable, Prophetic Houston

2Announcing the 2020 Insider Prize Winners

3‘A Saint From Texas’ Gets the Lone Star State Right

4‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies

5In ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ Kelli Jo Ford Explores How Pain is Passed Down Through Families

6In ‘Separated,’ One Journalist’s Close-up View of the Family Separation Crisis

Most Recent in Features:

1Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

3San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

4The Ghosts of Jefferson

5Little Arthouse on the Prairie

6The Clothes that Make the Man

Most Recent in Essay:

1What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3What’s a Bookstore for?

4Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

2Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

3Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

5Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Education

UT’s Dirty Investments

Mon, Feb 28, 2011

While many universities have stopped investing in companies that do business in Sudan, the University of Texas still invests millions of dollars in the energy c...Read More

Budget Cuts May Mean Less Latino College Grads

by thomas

Fri, Feb 18, 2011

From NewsTaco, where this article was first published. States across the country are slashing budgets left and right in an effort to deal with the recession, on...Read More

Bending a Deaf Ear Towards the Budget

by Ari Phillips

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

The atmosphere at this morning’s House Appropriations Subcommittee meeting on the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) and the Texas Schoo...Read More

How Latinos Are Redefining America

by Victor Landa

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

From NewsTaco, where this story was first published. A correction I find myself making often, especially to those who don’t agree with my particular point of ...Read More

Barely Legal

by Eileen Smith

Fri, Feb 4, 2011

The first day of school always comes with some level of trepidation. Will my classmates like me? Will my teacher be nice? Will administrators discover that I’...Read More

Higher Education Goes WiFi

High Expectations for the Future of Higher Education

by Ari Phillips

Fri, Jan 14, 2011

In case you weren’t aware, the future of higher education is online. That was the primary takeaway from yesterday’s panel discussion entitled “High Expect...Read More

A So-Called RINO Joins the Tea Party Caucus

Straus supporter and Rob Eissler has joined the Tea Party Caucus. Does that mean a shift in policy?

by Abby Rapoport

Tue, Dec 28, 2010

There are good surprises—cool Uncle Jim is coming to Christmas—and there are bad surprises—weird Auntie Edna’s making her special version of Jello s...Read More

Saving A Small Town

by Abby Rapoport

Fri, Dec 17, 2010

Hale Center was once a seat of power. The last Democratic speaker of the Texas House, Pete Laney, brought governors and lawmakers, including George W. Bush, to ...Read More

Starving For A Dream

by Texas Observer Staff

Wed, Dec 15, 2010

dept. of immigration Thanksgiving week, while most of us were stuffing ourselves, eight undocumented students at the University of Texas at Austin joined hundre...Read More

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