Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the organization has.

Report: Even if the PUC raises power prices, blackouts may be inevitable.

New Testaments by Dagoberto Gilb (City Lights Books). A longtime chronicler of the working-class Southwest, Gilb had two ...

Online readership numbers are at least one tool to figure out what the Observer audience really loved.

The top two stories here, investigations of social media nazis and charter schools, were far and away our most-read of the ...

This sort of nonfiction is designed to be started, finished, and actually leave you with something to show for it.

Faculty and students are experiencing profound disruption and distress, which starkly contrasts with the arrogant posture and ...