A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a ...

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.

New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death." ...

George Mason University who specializes in U.S.-Mexico relations and organized crime.

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

Some arrestees in Austin lack legal representation at a stage that can determine their cases’ outcome. The ACLU wants to ...

PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life ...

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is facing yet another complaint to the Federal Elections Commission that claims he has “brazenly” violated federal campaign finance laws through his podcast deal with one ...

A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for ...

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn teaches in the University of Chicago Creative Writing Program. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee ...