For decades, March 31 was marked with civil rights marches, school commemorations, and community celebrations honoring Cesar Chavez and the labor leader’s championing of better working conditions for ...

A rhetorical analysis of the numerous political stones cast from the Texas Attorney General's office during his run for U.S.

Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into ...

Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. Three years ago, at the outset of the 88th session of the Texas Legislature, Salman Bhojani placed his hand atop a 19th-century Quran in the ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. The ironies that affix themselves to the life and literature of Larry McMurtry are best exemplified by the title of his autobiographical ...

“What’s in the water?” state Representative Erin Zwiener asked when talking to the developers of a proposed data center in her district, which covers most of fast-growing Hays County, south of Austin.

Essays Making Coffee with a Candle—and Other Notes from a Cuba Gone Dark The Cuban government has been blaming the United States for its problems since 1959—sometimes rightly, sometimes not. At this ...

And here we are as well (flawless transition), with the Observer’s third issue of the year. I’ve been thinking, in the two ...

After 20 years in office, opponents say he’s become out of touch and absent. Now he must survive a runoff against Alief ...