Government flip-flopping and semantic ambiguity have led to premature declarations of victory over Trump's attack on my home ...

Despite the grip of conservative Christianity on Texas politics, religion here has always contained multitudes, a new work of ...

The party’s convention showcased populism as the core of Texas Democrats’ messaging. Will it hold true in November?

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening ...

Lupe Mendez, poetry editor of the Texas Observer, is author of the new book We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American writer and teacher based in Houston. She is the author of We Are Owed. and Sana Sana and is a ...

Texas does not have enough water. Texas also cannot get rid of the water it has. Both of those things are true right now, and in the dry stretch of West Texas where the two collide, they are turning ...

Over the course of his nearly 35 years as a politician, Henry Cuellar has managed to piss off just about every part of the Democratic coalition. He’s a pro-gun, anti-abortion, anti-union deficit hawk ...

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A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. From deep within I heard: “not a woman.” The desert stretched out in front of me as I drove. For months, feelings I couldn’t put my finger on ...

Chris Callaway served as a Texas Ranger from 2012 to 2018 and worked on public integrity cases, including investigating both local officials and a legislator. Statewide, Rangers like him handled more ...

In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation—on June 19th, 1865. But ...