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The Trace
How Can Cities Take Care of Young People This Summer?
Past and Present Collide in Tennessee
Why Do Mass Shooting Stories Often Sound the Same?
As Anniversaries of Horrific Mass Shootings Overlap, So Do Their Survivors
California’s Gun Laws Were Built Through Its Tragedies. Bruen Complicates That.
Uvalde families push to ‘raise the age’ for guns
How gun reform became a winning platform
A debunked researcher’s influence on the gun debate
Gun violence, voter intimidation, and the midterms
After Parkland, what does justice look like?
Texas Observer
How to Die in Texas
What’s a Bookstore for?
Pauline Oliveros Emerges From the Underground
Musician Anjimile on Leaving Texas, Getting Sober, and Blowing Up
The Flaneur of Downtown Dallas
Review: A Feminist Rewrite of Lot
South/West, a newsletter collaboration between the
Observer
and the
Oxford American
South/West contribution,
On Manners
Texas Observer culture newsletters
Poet Alok Vaid-Menon on Protest Art and Immigrant Detention
We Asked You About Health Care in Rural Texas. Here are Your Stories.
Texas Standard
Indie Stores are Growing Strong in Texas' Vibrant Book Market
This Nine-Year-Old from El Paso is a World Class Boxer
Austin PBS
Artist profiles of Kendrick Lamar, Leon Bridges, Angelique Kidjo, Alabama Shakes, and Nathaniel Rateliff for printed booklets.
Austin Monitor
Public information requests rely on the honor system at City Hall
Property tax system messed up; nobody happy