The time has come for this North Texas school district, and others like it, to move from an all-at-large board to a mix of geographic districts and at-large seats.

The time has come for this North Texas school district, and others like it, to move from an all-at-large board to a mix of geographic districts and at-large seats.

Rather than demonize immigrants as forever foreigners, the Texan thing has been to document their longstanding commitments to the state.

Pawan Dhingra is professor of American Studies at Amherst College and the author of the forthcoming book Success Won’t Save Us: How Asian Americans Can Fight White Supremacy.

A new required list doesn't meet the need to learn about the major religious traditions that make up Texas today—and could ...

Klein and co-author Astra Taylor’s new book is too bleak and unfocused for our shameless and sharp-edged political moment.

At the unusual midterm convention, Republicans pleaded with voters not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee’s latest racist screed, an assortment ...

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

A script is included at the bottom of the HTML text—available here at left to be copied—that allows us to track traffic on ...