Imposing permanent punishments for old mistakes backfires by reducing the talent pool to address Texas’ social worker ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. One night last summer, I went out with my wife. Through the restaurant windows, we could see the Uvalde town square: the ...

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

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

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

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

Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concoctions that I’m not allowed to understand as ...

Craig Garnett has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989. He moved to Uvalde in 1982 to begin work with the Leader-News, where his weekly editorials and columns have won ...

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

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