Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.

While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee’s latest racist screed, an assortment ...

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.

An exhaustive accounting of the Austin podcast giant's thoughts (and lack thereof) on James Talarico, Ken Paxton, and the ...

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 ...

At the unusual midterm convention, Republicans pleaded with voters not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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.

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