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State Politics • Dan Morales
Courting controversy.
September 1, 1996 | by Robert Draper | Feature
Spoils Sports
Oilers owner Bud Adams is hightailing it to Nashville; Drayton McLane may move the Astros too—or sell. In Houston and across the country, rooting for the home team is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
January 1, 1996 | by Robert Draper | Feature
The Great Texas Prison Mess
Something stinks in the Department of Criminal Justice, and it’s a lot more than VitaPro. A special report on the worst state scandal in decades.
May 1, 1996 | by Robert Draper | Feature
The Last Refuge
For years the dusty outpost of Terlingua has been a magnet for renegades and loners looking for a haven from the modern world. No wonder the brother of the suspected Unabomber holed up there.
June 1, 1996 | by Robert Draper | Feature
Truth, Justice, and the (Un)American Way
Everyone expected Clark Kent Ervin to parlay his loyal Bush Republicanism into big things in Washington. Which is why his sudden exit from the Department of Homeland Security was so surprising.
April 1, 2005 | by Robert Draper | Feature
Poor Willie
When the IRS seized all that Willie Nelson had, it was a case of the man who can’t say no meeting the men who won’t take no for an answer.
May 1, 1991 | by Robert Draper | Law
The Blood of the Farentholds
Sissy Farenthold’s family has long battled with its capacity for self-destruction. With the disappearance of her youngest son, the battle is once again joined.
April 1, 1992 | by Robert Draper | Feature
The Life and Death (and Life?) of the Party

After ruling the state for a century, Texas Democrats were gradually reduced to irrelevance. Is the reawakening at hand?

July 24, 2013 | by Robert Draper | Politics
Manhunt at Menard Creek
The death of a thief in the Big Thicket has federal officials probing the conduct of local lawmen—and local lawmen complaining about a federal vendetta against the Texas prison system.
October 1, 1993 | by Robert Draper | Feature
“I Think We Got Blown Up for Nothing”
What happened to the brave men of Bravo Troop is everything, writ small, that’s gone wrong in our nearly-five-year fiasco of a war in Iraq.
January 1, 2008 | by Robert Draper | Feature

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