Records reveal additional costs of the controversial Rio Grande barrier that the governor describes as “low-cost.” ...

Imposing permanent punishments for old mistakes backfires by reducing the talent pool to address Texas’ social worker ...

Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental ...

Winding up your year by the fire (or by the pool) as the temperature rises and dips? Or just taking off on a long holiday drive? In any of these scenarios, you likely need an audio book or podcast ...

Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the Central Park-sized liquefied natural gas ...

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the organization has.

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. One night last summer, I went out with my wife. Through the restaurant windows, we could see the Uvalde town square: the ...

Web traffic is a fickle thing, somewhat subject to the whims of tech overlords. And an overemphasis on traffic is also a path to sacrificing journalism’s higher callings, as sensationalism and ...

Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concoctions that I’m not allowed to understand as ...