Media Culpa
Why you should distrust the press.
Writer-at-large S. C. “Sam” Gwynne has worked for Texas Monthly in a variety of capacities since 2000. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Tribe in American History, published in 2010. The book was on the New York Times best-seller list for 82 weeks and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Rebel Yell was also a New York Times best-seller and was a finalist for both the PEN Award for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Prior to working for Texas Monthly, he was a correspondent, bureau chief, and senior editor for Time magazine.
Why you should distrust the press.
By S. C. Gwynne
Is Clear Channel, the San Antonio-based radio behemoth, as patently evil as everyone says? Don't touch that dial.
By S. C. Gwynne
Seven images and captionsfrom the campsite to the view from the rimshow how executive editor S. C. "Sam" Gwynne spent seven days alone on the Solitario.
By S. C. Gwynne
To experience the majesty and peril of the desert on my own terms, I spent a week alone in the Solitario, the most remote area of Big Bend Ranch State Park. I confronted my darkest fears—and made small talk with an insect.
By S. C. Gwynne
This was the summer of George W. Bush's discontent, when sixteen specious words in the State of the Union address threw the White House into disarray. Can his 32-year-old mediameister, Dan Bartlett, get the message and the messenger back on track?
By S. C. Gwynne
Wondering what American Airlines CEO Don Carty was thinking when his plan to save the company blew up in his face? I certainly was. So I went to see him.
By S. C. Gwynne
For as long as there has been a Texas, there have been dry spells when people wished it would rain. One huckster actually tried to make it happenwith the financial backing of Congress.
By S. C. Gwynne
Conservatives fear that the White House counsel is another David Souter, but he's close enough to George W. that he'll probably get a Supreme Court seat anywayand make history.
By S. C. Gwynne
The secret to running Southwest Airlines? Be sentimental. Share. And love.
By S. C. Gwynne
Deep pockets and an uphill climb: S. C. Gwynne says the last days of Tony Sanchez's campaign for governor looked an awful lot like the first.
By S. C. Gwynne
Find out in our updated, expanded, and still exclusive ranking of nearly every public high school in Texas.
By S. C. Gwynne
Well, the vice president of the United States was a mediocre CEO, but the company will be just fine. And, despite what you've read in the papers, so will he.
By S. C. Gwynne
Raymond C. Caballero, El Paso's feisty mayor.
By S. C. Gwynne
A businessman with the Western virtues of courage and self-reliance. An aloof aristocrat who bought his way into Republican politics. Who is the real David Dewhurst, and why are so many people so unenthusiastic about his campaign for lieutenant governor?
By S. C. Gwynne
If you're looking for endless stretches of pristine coastline, more birds than you can count, and the state's largest concentration of alligators, then Port Arthur is your gateway to an unexpected adventure.
By S. C. Gwynne
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne tells the story behind this month's cover story, "How Good Is Your Kid's School?"
By S. C. Gwynne
Find out in our rankings of nearly every public elementary, middle, and high school in Texas–the most comprehensive and accurate ever done in the state.
By S. C. Gwynne
Republican congressman Ron Paul, of Surfside, believes that much of our federal government should be abolished. He has voted against honoring the likes of Rosa Parks and repeatedly goes against his constituents' interests. He is a contrarian, an outsider, and an ineffectual lawmaker. And he just may be unbeatable.
By S. C. Gwynne
Remembering the Hunt brother’s silver anniversary.
By S. C. Gwynne
He made his name in real estate, but now Ross Perot, Jr., is running the computer services company that bears his family's nameand taking care of business with his father.
By S. C. Gwynne
How did Laredo-based IBC become one of the most powerful banks in Texas? Here's a full account.
By S. C. Gwynne
Why Austin's Garden.com went to seed.
By S. C. Gwynne
Texas Instruments looks to cash in on its chips.
By S. C. Gwynne
When Senators Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison blocked the nomination of El Paso's Enrique Moreno to the powerful Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals they triggered a firestorm of protest fueled by wounded ethnic pride.
By S. C. Gwynne