A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental ...

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

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 ...

It’s the latest instance of the state party’s right-wing officialdom embracing extremism, and vengeance, above all else.

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

Despite being exposed as bogus, some right-wing organizations keep coming back from the dead. No one knows who is funding them.