At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of ...

Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says ...

The Texas Majority PAC is the latest deep-pocketed initiative meant to turn Texas blue. But have its dollars just brought ...

When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle ...

Set to be the first U.S. person executed based on the controversial “Shaken Baby Syndrome” diagnosis, Roberson told the ...

Her mother had been in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid. Now, the state wanted its money back: “It was like wild animals ...

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A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in ...

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

Julie Poole is an independent journalist based in Austin. She writes about healthcare, housing, and reproductive rights.

Sam Judy is an investigative journalist with a background in criminal justice and civil rights reporting. His previous work ...

Dr. Damla Karsan lives in fear for her patients—and for all pregnant Texans. The Houston OB-GYN has spent the last four years painfully navigating the state’s draconian abortion bans, oftentimes for ...