Imposing permanent punishments for old mistakes backfires by reducing the talent pool to address Texas’ social worker ...

Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental ...

New Testaments by Dagoberto Gilb (City Lights Books). A longtime chronicler of the working-class Southwest, Gilb had two ...

The top two stories here, investigations of social media nazis and charter schools, were far and away our most-read of the ...

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the organization has.

Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concoctions that I’m not allowed to understand as ...

A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Craig Garnett has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989. He moved to Uvalde in 1982 to begin work with the Leader-News, where his weekly editorials and columns have won ...

Report: Even if the PUC raises power prices, blackouts may be inevitable.