Between 2022 and 2025, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s Islamophobia Index increased by 8 points. The Center for the Study of Organized Hate found that online Islamophobia was ...

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Her anti-climactic exit from office caps a saga of waning power and growing discord. But what her rise once promised is worth ...

Steve Stockman, the felonious GOP politician, wants to return to Washington with bid for newly gerrymandered Houston-area ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2025 issue. Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive ...

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of ...

"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a ...

If there’s anything good in Texas—academic freedom, labor, voting rights, education, politics—his litigation facilitated it." ...

A recently leaked memo recalls a sordid history of inappropriate surveillance, but it also identifies a concerning overlap between neo-fascists and hardline religious groups. “The thing that struck me ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an occasional series profiling the Texas lawmakers who make up the fringe of an already woefully fringe-y legislative body. These are the elected officials who ...

At the crux of the nation’s hyperpartisan political and culture wars stand Texas and Florida, the far-right Republican axis, whose right-wing trifectas not only survived the midterms but emerged ...