Energy Transfer owns the pipeline that caught fire recently near Houston, and it’s setting another fire at the National Labor ...

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

The only justification for animal suffering is that it is necessary or doesn’t matter. I have concluded it is not necessary ...

Editor’s Note: Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City, by longtime Observer contributor Alex Hannaford, will be ...

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

Disability rights experts are questioning the methods Capitol staff use to determine when to fill an accommodation request.

An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas.