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A Roadmap to Rebuilding Communities
Texas highways have destroyed and dominated our built environment. Megan Kimble's book "City Limits" offers a new vision.
Forging Their Own Way: Kaye Northcott on Texas Observer History
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
‘The Hobby’: A Love Letter to Board Gamers like My Son
The documentary reminds us how to revel in creative play and the company of others.
Dade Phelan’s Efforts to Expand Healthcare Still Leave Many Struggling in His District
The House speaker has never backed full Medicaid expansion, and GOP resistance could now harden.
Clearing the Air
Long COVID sufferers advocate for a healthier world.
Loon Star State: Utter Fantasies!
This is fine.
An Open Letter to Richard Linklater on Our Texas Death Penalty
Capital punishment ensnares us all in a labyrinth of our own making, as your new film poignantly reveals.
A Bittersweet Portrait of a Photographer, Obsessed
Great art has come at a cost for Dan Winters and his family, as an intimate documentary reveals.
A New Documentary Reveals the Real Eagle Pass
Robie Flores' "The In Between" is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.