Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2026 Issue
Texas Observer reader, Call me biased, but I do believe you’re holding a damn good magazine in your ...View More
Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a s ...View More
Our Best Longform Stories of 2025
In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to ret ...View More
A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish
The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Th ...View More
At the Texas AFL-CIO, a Changing of the Guard in a Time of Growth
For labor organizing, Texas was long dismissed as a forlorn place. “Right-to-work” laws restrict ...View More
Hereditary
The train tracks leading to my grandma’s house always reminded me of a spine. Curved & ancient, ...View More
Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet
Texas Republicans have been wary of unmanned aerial vehicles, with some even backing proposed laws t ...View More
Everyone Knows Jasmine Crockett. Could That Be a Good Thing?
Last Monday, just hours before the candidate filing deadline, Dallas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmin ...View More
Mirando hacia el futuro: Los combustibles fósiles en el Valle del Río Grande
Nota del editor: esta serie fue apoyada por la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Sociedad Id ...View More
Peering Into the Rio Grande Valley’s Fossil Fuel Future
Editor’s Note: This is part one of what will be a two-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center a ...View More
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