Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones ...

Under Ryan Matthieu Smith’s direction, the play’s setting moves to 1880s San Antonio. The use of Spanish reflects this milieu ...

Please tag the Texas Observer in social media posts promoting the republished story. Three drones whirred loudly in a gray metal box in the corner, the fans kicking up enough wind to rustle notebooks.

Last week, the prosecutor James Rodden returned to Dallas immigration court a year after the Observer's original investigation into his social media. Congressman Marc Veasey’s amendment did not ...

An exhibition at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum in Austin runs through January 25.

Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and longtime professor at UT-Arlington, made his name creating massive, mural-sized paintings ...

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ended the life of a Texan named Jackie Wiley.

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

Hearst's acquisition of struggling newspapers in the state may seem like welcome news. But bigger doesn't always mean better.

The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. Through publicly available ...

James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, ...

The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.