Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1The Lege This Week: Abbott Lets His Mask Slip

2The Lege This Week: Adventures in Circular Finger Pointing

3The Lege This Week: Out Cold

4The Lege This Week: Senators Poke, Prod and Punch Paxton

5The Lege This Week: Amid Pandemic, Abbott Prioritizes Red Meat

6The Lege This Week: Texas Redistricting Will Be A Summer Showdown

Most Recent in Environment:

1Biden Plans to Ban All New Fracking Leases on Public Land. Will He Actually Do It?

2The Sunniest City in Texas is Expanding … Natural Gas Production

3What to do With a “Tidal Wave” of Texas Wind Turbine Blades

4Teens for a Green New Deal

5Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal

6Solar Energy is Hitting a Growth Spurt. So Is The Disinformation Around It.

Most Recent in Border:

1How Texas Courts Went Virtual

2In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents

3Forgotten for Over a Century, Border Hero Jovita Idár Is Rediscovered by Her Hometown of Laredo

4Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocketed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

5Local Organizers Explain the Republican Surge in South Texas

65,000 People Contract COVID-19 While In ICE Custody, Including This Father Of 5

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Clogged Toilets, Snow Inside: How the Winter Storm Exacerbated Problems in Texas Lock-Ups

3Exploring the Rise, Fall, and Lingering Trauma of the Death Penalty in Texas

4Anatomy of a Crime

5Fort Bend County Will Soon Have Its First Black Sheriff Since Reconstruction

6How Texas Jails Avoid Investigations of Inmate Deaths

Most Recent in Education:

1The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

2Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

3Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

4The New Ensemble

5Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

6Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Editorial: Texas Wasn’t Prepared for the Statewide Vaccine Rush

2COVID-19’s Deadly Toll on Texas Workers

3COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas

4After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

5For Families That Lost Loved Ones or Jobs to the Pandemic, Thanksgiving Carries an Extra Weight This Year

6How We Got Here

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

2Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1“Wings of Ebony” Brings Black Girl Magic to Life

2A New Book Celebrates the Work of Architect John S. Chase

3The Flâneur of Downtown Dallas

4Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas

5How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

6A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession

Most Recent in Features:

1How to Die in Texas

2Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

2What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

3Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

4What’s a Bookstore for?

5Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

6In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

3Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

4Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

2Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

3Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6Parallel Planes

Texas Politics

David Dewhurst’s Terrible Swift Sword

Sun, Mar 28, 2010

It’s been striking to see Christian Right wedge issues almost entirely disappear from Gov. Rick Perry’s bag of political tricks as he runs for his t...Read More

Birther, Deather, Yachtsman, Hypocrite:

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

The right-wing beatification of Congressman Randy Neugebauer, the Lubbock Republican who screeched “baby killer” while Rep. Bart Stupak spoke on the...Read More

Preach, Bill, Preach

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Sometimes Bill White makes my brain sing. Like other Texans who fancy the notion of electing a governor who actually wants to govern, I look at his laudable rec...Read More

An Icon for Texas Women

Liz Carpenter, 1920-2010

by Helen Thomas

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

Texas has produced a bounty of great women—Lady Bird Johnson, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Nellie Connally, Ma Ferguson, and many others. But standing tall with...Read More

Demons, N-words and Baby-Killers: Right Wingnuts’ Health-Care Meltdown

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

With the historic U.S. House vote on Sunday night, the promise of universal health care first floated by Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 came a step closer to reality. ...Read More

Perry Campaign Gibe

Fri, Mar 19, 2010

Dear Bill White …

Thu, Mar 18, 2010

Dear Mayor White, Like so many Texans who’ve long been panting, gasping and praying for a viable alternative to the perpetual campaigning and epic misgove...Read More

Governor Perry Drones On

by Melissa del Bosque

Tue, Mar 16, 2010

Nothing like ratcheting up the fear factor to “red alert” to get those campaign juices flowing. Governor Rick Perry wants a Predator drone President Obama �...Read More

Bill White’s Tax Flap: Keep It Simple, Dude

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

Bill White is an extraordinarily thoughtful, nuanced politician. It’s one of the reasons his three terms as Houston mayor were, by and large, boffo. It...Read More

Slush Fun

At least one Texan has benefited from Rick Perry's Enterprise Fund.

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

For the past six years, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has lorded over a controversial stash of taxpayer money known as the Texas Enterprise Fund, dispensing huge sums�...Read More

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