Four years after a failed attempt to flip the lower chamber, the minority party has set its sights on a more modest objective ...

Bayou City comic Ali Siddiq turns street life and incarceration into laughs, while challenging stereotypes and provoking the ...

The closest I ever got to meeting a real-life fairy was Gene Elder, who wrote and starred in "Fairies Fiasco." A version of ...

Energy Transfer owns the pipeline that caught fire recently near Houston, and it’s setting another fire at the National Labor ...

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the ...

The only justification for animal suffering is that it is necessary or doesn’t matter. I have concluded it is not necessary ...

Editor’s Note: Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City, by longtime Observer contributor Alex Hannaford, will be ...

Energy Transfer owns the pipeline that caught fire recently near Houston, and it’s setting another fire at the National Labor ...

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

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