Inside Houston’s 1970 School Strike
Editor’s Note: Lupe Mendez, poetry editor of the Texas Observer, is author of the new book We Exist ...View More
Throwing the Book at Books in Prison
Every Thursday and Sunday evening, a dozen volunteers file into the back room of Vesper, a community ...View More
Turning Back the Clock
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Unity and Discontent at the Texas Dems’ Corpus Convening
At this year’s Texas Democratic Party convention, sounds of the Corpus Christi coastline lulled Lone ...View More
Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2026 Issue
Texas Observer reader, The following are my remarks, in part, from our May 6 MOLLYs fundraiser gala: ...View More
Portrait of Us, 2019-2023
All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the f ...View More
Worker’s Death at SpaceX Factory Followed Hundreds of Injuries in Recent Years
Around 4 a.m. on May 15, in the 1-year-old South Texas town of Starbase, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-ye ...View More
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-p ...View More
The Last Safe Haven for DEI in Texas Higher Ed?
Editor’s Note: The author is a social work student at Texas A&M University–Central Texas. ...View More
School Closures Are Escalating Across Texas. ‘It’s Not a Local Failure.’
At least 135 public schools have closed or have been approved to close all across Texas since late 2 ...View More
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