Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Truthdig and the Texas Observer. In the late spring of 2009, Andrew Collins learned that an oil and gas drilling waste landfarm, operated by a ...

While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee’s latest racist screed, an assortment ...

The progun shibboleth that “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” has become so ...

A new required list doesn't meet the need to learn about the major religious traditions that make up Texas today—and could ...

With a candidate on the ballot in every state and federal race, the minority party is trying hard to gain some ground in the GOP’s electoral firewall. Permian Basin Democrats Tim McDaniel and Eli ...

At the unusual midterm convention, Republicans pleaded with voters not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

An exhaustive accounting of the Austin podcast giant's thoughts (and lack thereof) on James Talarico, Ken Paxton, and the ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2026 issue. On a sizzling Friday night in late May, Houstonians from all over the city flock to the Ensemble Theatre’s lobby. Under fluorescent ...

Klein and co-author Astra Taylor’s new book is too bleak and unfocused for our shameless and sharp-edged political moment.

The time has come for this North Texas school district, and others like it, to move from an all-at-large board to a mix of geographic districts and at-large seats.

Jack McCordick is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Republic, Mother Jones, and other publications. At the firearms ...