A strong and clear editorial vision, committed to the values we’ve upheld at the Texas Observer for 70 years, is critical to ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access ...

A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the ...

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This year, Texas’ original champion of independent journalism is 70 years old. Our inaugural issue was published on December ...