From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. Every Thursday and Sunday evening, a dozen volunteers file into the back room of Vesper, a community space in East Austin. In the ...

Pamela Colloff’s debut book is a propulsive study of a fatally flawed tactic beloved by prosecutors in Texas and beyond.

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

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

As many as 20 million of the winged mammals gather at one Texas Hill Country cave, creating one of nature’s most jaw-dropping ...

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

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At this year’s Texas Democratic Party convention, sounds of the Corpus Christi coastline lulled Lone Star liberals into the recurring dream of a blue wave crashing over the state. After 30 years of ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2022 issue. These days the Kemah Boardwalk is a glitzy, overbuilt amusement park where competing pop songs blare from speakers and the smells of fried ...

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 ...