HISTORICAL FACTS: 13 | History Defined

Party Discipline

Charlie Kirk defended the First Amendment. Texas betrays it in his defense.

Texas Observer · Sep 29, 2025

How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History

And how they could still start winning it.

Texas Observer · Sep 29, 2025

Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage

Advocates warn a proposed rule by the Department of Labor will deepen the country’s “crisis of care.”

Texas Observer · Sep 25, 2025

News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case

The media outlets, including the Texas Observer, argue that the Paxtons are elected officials subject to public scrutiny.

Texas Observer · Sep 17, 2025

How Texas Localities Have (and Haven’t) Spent Settlement Funds to Fight the Opioid Crisis

Experts say that how the opioid funds are used in these early years could set the tone for the next nearly two decades that Texas receives settlement dollars.

Texas Observer · Sep 17, 2025

‘I Am Not Your Enemy’

Book excerpt: “The world’s biggest terrorist has a Pikachu bedspread.”

Texas Observer · Sep 16, 2025

The Health Penalty

At a North Texas prison, one nurse practitioner racked up more than 20 federal lawsuits over alleged medical mistreatment. The patients’ stories illuminate a healthcare system that often seems like another form of punishment.

Texas Observer · Sep 15, 2025

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border

Fighting for immigrant justice is a Jewish religious and cultural obligation.

Texas Observer · Sep 12, 2025

Life in the Time of Hurricanes

So late in the season, this was likely a bad one, if it came this way...

Texas Observer · Sep 10, 2025

The Arc Doesn’t Bend Itself

A new memoir traces the evolution of a trailblazing civil rights group in Texas.

Texas Observer · Sep 10, 2025