A rhetorical analysis of the numerous political stones cast from the Texas Attorney General's office during his run for U.S.
Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into ...
On February 19, two days after the death of the reverend and civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, the Observer’s longtime contributing photographer Alan Pogue emailed me a shot of Jackson shaking hands ...
A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. Three years ago, at the outset of the 88th session of the Texas Legislature, Salman Bhojani placed his hand atop a 19th-century Quran in the ...
The Kyle City Council voted to apply for more state grant money for Flock Safety cameras despite a string of local-level ...
Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about ...
After last year’s deadly Hill Country flood took at least 135 lives over the July 4 weekend, volunteers flocked to the area to support disaster relief efforts. Among those volunteers were members of ...
McMurtry cushions his failure to decenter the core of the Western myth, which he identifies as the belief that cowboys are ...
“What’s in the water?” state Representative Erin Zwiener asked when talking to the developers of a proposed data center in her district, which covers most of fast-growing Hays County, south of Austin.
And here we are as well (flawless transition), with the Observer’s third issue of the year. I’ve been thinking, in the two ...