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The Real Lesson Behind Texas’ New Bible Curriculum Requirements

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy and larger society should not be questioned.

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Inside the Dark World of Romance Scammers

An Austin author’s new novel delves deep into the scammer networks that exploit the vulnerable and the lovelorn.

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A Birth Plan for the Dying

When an ultrasound reveals a lethal fetal anomaly, each image is the unwinding of a miracle. Then, Texas’ abortion ban makes the nightmare even worse.

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The Hard Ceiling over Texas Cities’ Climate Plans

From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has narrowed the tools to carry them out.

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A Jailhouse Snitch and the System that Made Him

Pamela Colloff’s debut book is a propulsive study of a fatally flawed tactic beloved by prosecutors in Texas and beyond.

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In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.

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The Bats of Bracken

As many as 20 million of the winged mammals gather at one Texas Hill Country cave, creating one of nature’s most jaw-dropping displays.

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What Is (and Isn’t) Happening with the Border Wall in Big Bend

Government flip-flopping and semantic ambiguity have led to premature declarations of victory over Trump's attack on my home region.

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One State Under Whose God?

Despite the grip of conservative Christianity on Texas politics, religion here has always contained multitudes, a new work of history shows.

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Inside Houston’s 1970 School Strike

Texas poet's new book gives Houston's "huelga" school movement iconic verses, images, and voices.

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Throwing the Book at Books in Prison

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.

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Unity and Discontent at the Texas Dems’ Corpus Convening

The party’s convention showcased populism as the core of Texas Democrats’ messaging. Will it hold true in November?

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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2026 Issue

A note from the editor-in-chief

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Portrait of Us, 2019-2023

warm funk, thick bass, alarms going going going...

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Worker’s Death at SpaceX Factory Followed Hundreds of Injuries in Recent Years

A 25-year-old died last month of “blunt force trauma due to a fall.” An Observer analysis found that the injury rate at "Starbase" was well above an industry national average.

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Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

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The Last Safe Haven for DEI in Texas Higher Ed?

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School Closures Are Escalating Across Texas. ‘It’s Not a Local Failure.’

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

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Deaths Uncovered in Laredo Show the Ongoing Toll of Border Militarization

“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”

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Texas Has a Water Shortage and a Water Glut. They’re the Same Problem.

Every day the Permian Basin brings up more water than nearby communities use, and treats most of it as waste. The state can no longer afford to do so.

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A Queer Texan Retraces Steinbeck’s 10,000-mile trip

Austin author and essayist Lauren Hough serves up a monster of a tale about traveling with a dog named Woody Guthrie on a road trip across America.

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A Mirror and a Portal

Through self-portraiture, a trans Texan photographer steps in front of the camera to document their journey to find home within.

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From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas

Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation.

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Betty Simmons, a Texan in Slavery’s Last Years

Narratives collected by the federal Works Progress Administration, like the one recounted here, are an invaluable tool for retelling American history.

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In Laredo’s Last Stand Against Trump’s Border Wall, Are City Leaders Making a Deal with the Devil?

"A lot of the same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Big Bend are the exact same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Laredo," say opponents of the wall, as local officials have sought to accommodate the feds' demands.

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