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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

One of the biggest explosions and fires in recent Texas pipeline history was apparently sparked by a disoriented SUV driver who took the wrong road out of an oversized Walmart parking lot in the ...

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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