Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions ...

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One of the biggest explosions and fires in recent Texas pipeline history was apparently sparked by a disoriented SUV driver who took the wrong road out of an oversized Walmart parking lot in the ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2024 issue. Mark Lamb decided to run for sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, after his pest control business failed and a police officer friend ...

A bipartisan majority of the Texas House of Representatives is calling for clemency for Robert Roberson III, who is scheduled to be executed on October 17. If the execution moves forward, Roberson ...

The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic process.

The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic process.

A new book takes aim at the seemingly unchecked power of America’s gun-toting sheriffs.

As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.