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For labor organizing, Texas was long dismissed as a forlorn place. “Right-to-work” laws restrict organizing here, most public ...

At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious ...

Texas Republicans have been wary of unmanned aerial vehicles, with some even backing proposed laws to allow the citizenry to gun down invasive airborne drones. Now, thanks to years of Operation Lone ...

In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many months ago, here are 10 of the best Observer ...

Around Galveston, Sam Collins III is better known as Professor Juneteenth. For the past 20 years, Collins, 53, has devoted his life to educating the public about Juneteenth—the commemoration of June ...

Texas. Her chapbook, Gemini Gospel, was the winner of Host Publication's Chapbook Contest in Spring 2023. She teaches undergraduate literature at Texas State and coordinates the MFA in Creative ...

Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes she’s starting “on second or third base.” ...

The first time Phylis Canion saw the chupacabra, it was slipping through the pastures on her South Central Texas ranch in broad daylight. It was June 2007, and Canion, a naturopathic doctor and hunter ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2020 issue. The years living on the street showed in Alvin Sanderson’s weatherworn face as he approached the microphone at Austin City Hall last ...

A version of this story ran in the April 2016 issue. Alphonse Kayiranga wasn’t sure what to expect from his new home. His family had been killed in the Rwandan civil war, and he’d spent six years in ...