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

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

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Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

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An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas.