The Interview

Who Stands Between Texas and a Fascist Railroad Commission?

This man here—and a plurality of voters if he can find them

Through the Texas Freedom Colonies Project, researchers are working to liberate data on behalf of Black Texans.

“Now we're just working with this unprecedented state usurpation of local control, trying to keep people safe as best we can.”

John Henneberger has spent 45 years advocating for Texans’ right to have a safe, affordable place to live.

Several years ago, Hotez and his colleagues developed a vaccine that may have prevented the new coronavirus—but they couldn’t get it funded.

Slack led a massive research effort to learn what happens to those whom immigration authorities deport and dump all along the Mexican border.

To celebrate our 65th birthday, we asked our founding editor about where the Observer has been and what he thinks about its future.

The Texas Tech professor and lead author on the last three National Climate Assessments wants you to talk about how to live in a warming world.

“There are 364 other days in the year when people’s lives are shaped by the possibility of deportation or a raid.”

Texas Gun Sense’s Ed Scruggs on how Abbott and Patrick talk about guns behind closed doors—and what that says about the prospects for change.