November 2007
Features
After spending her adolescence largely out of view (except for a few scrapes with restaurant and bar employees), presidential spawn Jenna Bush is emerging as a public person in her own right. But her return to private life can’t come soon enough.
Which is worse: looking the other way as millions of illegals stream across the border or building an unconscionably expensive and impractical fence that few in the Valley (a) want or (b) believe will make a difference?
Which is worse: looking the other way as millions of illegals stream across the border or building an unconscionably expensive and impractical fence that few in the Valley (a) want or (b) believe will make a difference?
In the right light, the ornery octogenarian oilman’s guilty plea can be seen as a victory: After all, he won’t spend the rest of his natural life in jail. But the fact is, he couldn’t beat the rap—and he knew it.
In the right light, the ornery octogenarian oilman’s guilty plea can be seen as a victory: After all, he won’t spend the rest of his natural life in jail. But the fact is, he couldn’t beat the rap—and he knew it.
Fifty years after the mythical trip on the Brazos that was the basis for John Graves’s classic book, I followed in his wake. Literally.
Fifty years after the mythical trip on the Brazos that was the basis for John Graves’s classic book, I followed in his wake. Literally.
What Samir Patel learned in five years of not winning the national spelling bee (other than the root words of “eremacausis”).
What Samir Patel learned in five years of not winning the national spelling bee (other than the root words of “eremacausis”).
Exclusive: The first three chapters of Custer’s Brother’s Horse, the new novel by Edwin “Bud” Shrake.
Exclusive: The first three chapters of Custer’s Brother’s Horse, the new novel by Edwin “Bud” Shrake.
Columns
What Dallas has in common with Beijing—and why their shared vision of the twenty-first-century world must carry the day.
What Dallas has in common with Beijing—and why their shared vision of the twenty-first-century world must carry the day.
When I ran for governor, I saw firsthand everything that was wrong with our state’s political system. That’s why I know how to fix it.
When I ran for governor, I saw firsthand everything that was wrong with our state’s political system. That’s why I know how to fix it.
Reporter
“I have got something that God has entrusted me with, and I have to make the most of it in helping other people.”
