At Fresh Arts, photographer Violeta Álvarez created a space where immigrant families in Houston can see their own histories ...

A new required list doesn't meet the need to learn about the major religious traditions that make up Texas today—and could ...

With a candidate on the ballot in every state and federal race, the minority party is trying hard to gain some ground in the GOP’s electoral firewall.

It’s late June, more than two hours into the 2,518th episode of his mega-popular podcast, and Joe Rogan is critiquing part of James Talarico’s anatomy. With his guest, the conservative-leaning ...

Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Truthdig and the Texas Observer. In the late spring of 2009, Andrew Collins learned that an oil and gas drilling waste landfarm, operated by a ...

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Klein and co-author Astra Taylor’s new book is too bleak and unfocused for our shameless and sharp-edged political moment.

The time has come for this North Texas school district, and others like it, to move from an all-at-large board to a mix of geographic districts and at-large seats.

On July 4, 2002, my childhood home just south of Kerr County flooded after a heavy rainstorm moved through the Texas Hill Country, hitting the headwaters that feed the Medina and Guadalupe rivers hard ...

Rather than demonize immigrants as forever foreigners, the Texan thing has been to document their longstanding commitments to the state.