A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental ...

Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

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

Report: Even if the PUC raises power prices, blackouts may be inevitable.

New Testaments by Dagoberto Gilb (City Lights Books). A longtime chronicler of the working-class Southwest, Gilb had two ...

Online readership numbers are at least one tool to figure out what the Observer audience really loved.

The top two stories here, investigations of social media nazis and charter schools, were far and away our most-read of the ...

Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concoctions that I’m not allowed to understand as ...

As a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, each day feels like a precarious game of Jenga, with the iconic tower of our institution at constant risk of collapse. This instability ...