The new Alliance for Texas History calls for working everyone’s stories “into the fabric of Texas history.” ...

Nearly 150 members of the new Texas Alliance for History, including university professors and students, community historians, and staff members of historical sites and museums gathered Saturday at ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2024 issue. Above: A young girl holds an American flag during an immigrant ...

As a rural hospital in Crockett struggles with the cost of indigent and other unpaid care, a torn community weighs how to ...

Jeff Danziger, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, drew for the Observer in the late ’70s, after ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a ...

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

But giving up or giving away Texas state property is nothing new for the state’s park commissioners. Over the last 25 years, ...

Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.

New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death." ...