As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

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Steve Stockman, the felonious GOP politician, wants to return to Washington with bid for newly gerrymandered Houston-area ...

My wife Monica and I had different reasons for journeying to Pedernales. She’s a fan. But our visit to Willie’s golf course ...

If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of ...

"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a ...

Despite growing anti-Muslim sentiments and discrimination, American Muslims continue to engage civically and thrive as a community.

More than a year and a half since Governor Greg Abbott launched his taxpayer-financed plan to build a border wall along the Texas-Mexico border, the state has made little progress. But Abbott may soon ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2025 issue. Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive ...