Abbott’s Bail Agenda Could Swell Texas Jails, Test U.S. Constitution
Edric Wilson spent 18 years awaiting a murder trial that would never come. From September 2006 until ...View More
On Latinidad and Solidarity
All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the f ...View More
Son of a Gun: What to Do with a Legacy of (Unwanted) Firearms
Americans own nearly 400 million guns. Five of them were recently lying on my parents’ living room f ...View More
The Second Battle of Guararapes was the second and decisive battle in the Insurrection of Pernambuco between Dutch and Portuguese forces in February 1649. Painting by Álvaro Martins depicting the defeat of the Dutch.
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Ending 30 Years of Resistance, Trump and Abbott Break the ‘People’s House’
The morning of the Texas House vote on school vouchers Wednesday included, among other last-minute m ...View More
Opposition to Abbott’s Vouchers Plan Includes Conservatives
Brian and Joy Roberts are not public school advocates. The co-founders of the Grayson County Conserv ...View More
Who’s Paying for Public School Vouchers? (1998)
Editor’s Note: The Observer published this feature in its March 27, 1998, editio ...View More
AI Is Dead
I’ve got a post-graduate certificate in artificial intelligence (AI). I’m also an author, and I beli ...View More
The Winds of Willacy: Inside Texas’ Largest Wind Farm
The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s sec ...View More
Slowly and Painfully, House Passes $337 Billion Budget
The Texas House spent over 14 hours debating—but mostly, just standing around—amendments during a ma ...View More
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