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A well-known warrior in the #ChurchToo movement reveals in a new book how she escaped from an abusive Texas home and an abusive Southern Baptist church.

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

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

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

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

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

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." ...

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