Texas Set to Execute Fourth Person of the Year on Tuesday
Matthew Johnson’s guilt was never in question. On the stand during his 2013 trial, he admitted to th ...View More
Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’
Simply being in the United States without a legal immigration status is a civil matter—not a crimina ...View More
A Thirsty Tesla Refinery Could Exacerbate Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis
Corpus Christi is a town built around water. But while the Gulf of Mexico has made the region what i ...View More
A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’
These days, the thrum of traffic and the roar of a bulldozer intrude on conversations at café tables ...View More
Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2025 Issue
Texas Observer readers, Three months into a second Trump administration, nearly a decade into t ...View More
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
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