Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Texas Observer

Who Judges the Judges?

In Texas, an opaque system undermines accountability for judges.

Texas Observer

Paxton Is Burning

Has accountability finally come to Texas?

Texas Observer

Oaxaca’s Silk Farmers Seek to Protect Their Way of Life

Oaxacan artisans seek to preserve the unique ways of making the fabric found in their region since the 1500s.

Texas Observer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

¿Quién Se Queda con el Dinero Robado a México?

Los planes del Departamento de Justicia para devolver el dinero robado del estado de Coahuila generan dudas sobre quién debería recibir el dinero.

Texas Observer

Who Gets Mexico’s Missing Money?

The Justice Department’s plans to return funds stolen from the state of Coahuila raise questions about whom should get them.

Texas Observer

Charlatans, False Prophets and Flimflammers

A veteran NPR reporter tells all about his misadventures covering religion in America during the rise of Christian nationalism.

Texas Observer

‘May Their Memory Be a Blessing’: Hundreds Gather for Uvalde Anniversary Vigil

A year later, law enforcement has faced nothing approaching systemic accountability for failures at Robb Elementary.

Texas Observer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘American Born Chinese’ and the Limits of Cultural Representation

The hero in Disney+'s show American Born Chinese follows a familiar journey for colonized people, predicted by theorist Frantz Fanon.

Texas Observer

Wrecking Women’s Healthcare

Low-income Texans depend on family planning clinics. The clinics depend on a program that's in trouble.

Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Reports of Our Death …

The Texas Observer lives! The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent takes on the near-death of our publication.

Texas Observer

Fast & Furious XI: Texas’ Transgender Youth

Headed for the governor’s desk, SB 14 shows the Legislature has no idea what healthcare for trans kids even is.

Texas Observer

‘A Man Without a Gun Is Not a Citizen’

Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown traces the road from Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to the January 6 insurrection and MAGA extremism.

Texas Observer

In Houston Schools, It’s the Mike Morath Show

An audio recording of trainings for unelected school managers paints a bleak picture of the Bayou City’s educational future.

Texas Observer

Murió ayudando a construir la Gigafábrica de Tesla. Tesla no reportó su muerte a funcionarios locales.

Antelmo Ramírez era papá, abuelo y esposo. Su muerte por hipertermia no figura en el informe de Tesla requerido como parte del acuerdo fiscal con el condado de Travis.

Texas Observer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Texas Observer

Those Who Don’t Know the Past…

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

Texas Observer

A Postpartum Page-Turner

Austin author Szilvia Molnar's memoir-esque novel about motherhood, The Nursery, is both engaging—and disturbing.

Texas Observer

Texas Transportation Advocacy Revs Up at the Lege

After the passage of a road safety bill in 2021, proponents see another opportunity.

Texas Observer

‘He Failed to Signal’: When DPS Traffic Stops Turn Deadly

Shandra Hodge speaks out about her son’s death at the hands of state troopers in 2019.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Texas Observer

‘We Have to Put These People Back in Their Place’: Gene Wu Explains White Supremacy, Reddit, and Life in the Minority

"A lot of these little things had a very strong white-supremacist basis."

Texas Observer

Documents Reveal ‘How to Defund Trans Pediatrics’ in Texas

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPEDS)—designated a hate group by the SPLC—found common cause with GOP megadonor Monty Bennett.

Texas Observer

How (Not) to Mourn a Mass Shooting

Two local churches in Allen offered contrasting visions of how the community can heal in the wake of mass murder.

Texas Observer

Houston-area Shell Refinery Had Troubled History Before Fire

Before the fire at the Shell refinery, "upsets" like tripped compressors, pressure loss and more resulted in thousands of pounds of pollution.

Texas Observer

He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials.

Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa, and husband. His death by hyperthermia is absent from a Tesla report required in a county tax deal.

Texas Observer

Investigative Reporting Is Under Attack in the Americas. We Need More Action.

U.S. journalists are publicly asking the Biden administration to actively support freedom of the press.

Texas Observer

Mental Illness Shouldn’t Land You in Jail

Up to 40 percent of the people who end up behind bars in Travis County need mental health care. Diversion offers better options.

1 … 27 28 29 30

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Justice

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.