When you poll this country, America loves Dreamers. … I’ll keep working to get this done till they have to roll me off the ...

A Third Future Schools-Texas elementary school in Midland has been accused of neglecting social studies and physical ...

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief ...

On any given day, Texas county jails detain over 53,000 people who are simply awaiting adjudication. These Texans remain ...

An agency report challenging media stories overlooks the charter schools’ compliance with federal tax and state business laws, on the watch of the now-HISD superintendent, while revealing new ...

Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of ...

Dallas. His new collection of poems, photographs, and essays in translation, Occupy Whiteness, is out now from Deep Vellum ...

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

Since 1954, the Observer has focused on communities who are often ignored. Funding from the Google News Initiative takes us to the next level.

After World War II, "People understood that if they had allowed more immigrants into the United States, many of them wouldn't ...

Molly Ivins’ official editorial run at the Texas Observer lasted six years, from 1970 through 1976; unofficially, it lasted a little longer—her syndicated columns appeared in these pages and ...