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Texas’ War on Drug Users

A mass casualty event last spring lays bare the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Texas Observer · Jan 7, 2025

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2025 Issue

A note from the Editor-in-Chief

Texas Observer · Jan 6, 2025

Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas Letters

Some Texas nonfiction, novels, and poems to get through those long winter nights.

Texas Observer · Dec 30, 2024

Uvalde’s Darkest Hour

A new book by the publisher of the Uvalde Leader-News illuminates events that forever altered lives in this small Texas city.

Texas Observer · Dec 18, 2024

Editorial Moves at the Observer

A bit of good news: Two of our writers will be moving into new positions starting next year.

Texas Observer · Dec 17, 2024

Trans Children Are God’s Gifts

Without the support of our Christian church in the Houston suburbs, my daughter might not be with us today.

Texas Observer · Dec 16, 2024

Bearing Witness

Pogue has spent his career photographing fights for social justice. Along the way, he captured the history of the Observer, too.

Texas Observer · Dec 13, 2024

Will Texas Finally Wind Down Border Security Spending?

Top state officials have already made promises that, under Trump, money can be shifted to education. But that didn’t happen last time.

Texas Observer · Dec 12, 2024

TEA Exoneration of Mike Miles’ Charter Schools Leaves Questions Unanswered, Raises New Ones

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 out-of-state payments.

Texas Observer · Dec 11, 2024

The Questions the Death Penalty Cannot Answer

“I Am Ready, Warden,” a new short documentary, exposes the unresolved pain on all sides of a Texas execution.

Texas Observer · Dec 10, 2024