UNCOVERED: 34 - The Untold Story

Loon Star State: Hoax

Cartoonist Ben Sargent on the Republican view of science and climate change, from the January/February 2024 issue of Texas Observer.

Texas Observer · Feb 9, 2024

Right-Wing Bloggers Busted During Militia Border Tour

Bloggers arrested for drug possession after receiving information that someone in a caravan was pointing a gun at migrants, DPS report says.

Texas Observer · Feb 8, 2024

Jim Crow Still Lingers in Bonham, Civil Rights Lawyers Say

Civil rights complaint alleges biracial child faced two years of racially motivated attacks in Bonham. From Reporting Fellow Josephine Lee.

Texas Observer · Feb 7, 2024

Labour ditches radical reforms as it prepares ‘bombproof’ election manifesto

Plans to reform social care and House of Lords are trimmed as Keir Starmer’s party opts for caution ahead of vote

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Patrick Joyce: ‘The history of peasants is one of their silence or being silenced’

The academic and author on the lessons we can learn from those who work the land, acquiring a second career in his 70s – and how he ‘dialogues’ with the spirit of Seamus Heaney

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Scientology-linked UK drug rehab left vulnerable people ‘traumatised’

Exclusive: use of controversial church’s repetitive drills led to patients becoming ‘shattered’ or paranoid, witnesses say

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Ofsted inspectors ‘make up evidence’ about a school’s performance when IT fails

Inspector tells Observer investigation that top officials are aware that computer system crashes can wipe out data

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Trump’s dark side: Inside the 2 February Guardian Weekly

Is Donald Trump more vulnerable than he seems? Plus: What the ICJ ruling means for Israel and the west

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024

Finland’s ‘DJ’ candidate hopes to become the country’s first Green and gay president

Pekka Haavisto, who is second in the opinion polls, is bolstering his campaign with club nights and music from the 60s and 70s

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

‘Well-camouflaged dictatorship’: Rwandans fear for safety while dirty tricks campaign undermines critics

Kagame’s government targeted journalists who uncovered killings, disappearances and torture linked to the regime

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024