Adams trains a revealing new lens on American history and on the struggles of Black literary leaders. Each store’s success, as she writes, has relied in part on the owners’ courage, tenacity, and ...

Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.

Even without Proposition 3, "The jail system is already the largest warehouse of people with mental illness in the state of ...

TEA intervention into locally controlled school districts has become increasingly common—despite mixed results.

Along with the monetary settlement, city officials agreed to send its employees to training that the Texas Municipal League ...

I don’t know when this shutdown will end or benefits reinstated. But I do know we are worth more than the petty arguments of ...

The United States doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips, or military technology.

State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at ...

Books. That’s right—it’s 2025, and I’m using the medium of a print magazine to talk to you about the even longer ...

Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s ...

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Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.