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

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

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As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.

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The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic process.