As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

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Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.

"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of ...

If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

More than a year and a half since Governor Greg Abbott launched his taxpayer-financed plan to build a border wall along the Texas-Mexico border, the state has made little progress. But Abbott may soon ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2025 issue. Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive ...

Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway. When immigration agents detained Douglas ...

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Editor’s Note: This article is part of an occasional series profiling the Texas lawmakers who make up the fringe of an already woefully fringe-y legislative body. These are the elected officials who ...