From Joe Biden to Colin Allred, election-season Dems take too lightly an issue at the heart of our national experiment: ...

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Jeff Danziger, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, drew for the Observer in the late ’70s, after ...

As a rural hospital in Crockett struggles with the cost of indigent and other unpaid care, a torn community weighs how to ...

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.

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

But giving up or giving away Texas state property is nothing new for the state’s park commissioners. Over the last 25 years, ...

A well-known warrior in the #ChurchToo movement reveals in a new book how she escaped from an abusive Texas home and an abusive Southern Baptist church.

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