Politics & Policy

The Firing Line

The first shot in Clements’ campaign to cut 25,000 state employees fells 68 casualties.

Behind the Lines

The medical miasma.

Have Guns, Will Travel

Do you want a rare antique muzzle-loader or a holdup pistol that can’t be traced? You can find them both at a gun show.

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A farewell to celebrities and to arms.

Rebel with a Cause

Can a Texas revolutionary find happiness exiled in Europe? Not when his revolution is in Mexico.

The Seep of Death

Chemical waste disposal sits are environmental time bombs-if they don’t get you know, they’ll get you later.

Billy Lee

How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…

Behind the Lines

As New Ulm went, so goes New York.

Six Crises

It will be up to the 66th Legislature to solve these problems, and we’ll have to live with the solutions.

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Stone walls do not a prison make.

A Call to Farms

The Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer.

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A funny thing happened on the way to the governor’s office.

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Good-bye to Main Street.

Ticket to Ride?

For the Republicans this fall, it may be a trip to oblivion.

The Enemy Within

Remember the great campaign against drugs? Dueling enforcement agencies have turned it into a civil war.

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Bringing it all back home.

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Stalking elusive birds and energy czars.

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The uselessness of college.

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What energy crisis?

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Why we don’t endorse candidates.

Election Tip Sheet

The dark horses, heavy favorites, and close calls of this year’s big elections.

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Requiem for a heavyweight.

The Case Against the Farmers

Everybody says they want to help the farmers, but nobody wants to face up to what they really need.

The Smoldering Fire

More than once San Antonio has been the crucible for a Mexican revolution. A band of guerrillas in Oaxaca believes it could happen again.

Behind the Lines

Crime and punishment.

Grasping At Strauss

For Bob Strauss, power is its own reward.

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On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of this magazine.

The Good Old Girls

At the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America.

Corpus Delicti

Corpus Christi is the victim - what is the crime?

Behind the Lines

Like most wrong ideas, the concept of the sunbelt didn’t matter until people started putting it into practice.

The Second Battle of the Alamo

Texas’ oldest city is heading for a political showdown, thanks to some newcomers to the power game.

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This may be the Me Decade, but fortunately a great many people haven’t gotten the word.

Have Conscience, Will Travel

Leon Jaworski is cleaning up again.

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Some nice words about the police, exploring Texas, and listening to opportunity knock.

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“Give me your tired, your poor . . . ”

The House Is Not A Home

A freshman in the Texas Legislature finds everything from the sublime to the ridiculous—well, maybe not the sublime.

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Houston has the healthiest urban economy in the nation, but money can’t buy happiness.

Pipe Dream

You’ve heard of the Texas Water Plan; now meet the Texas Coal Plan.

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The Viet Nam War was the second this country lost.

1977: The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators

We just rate them. You voted for them.

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Those who laugh first at the Texas Legislature do not laugh last.

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Jimmy Carter’s energy program wants to bury the age of oil and gas whether it’s dead or not.

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Liberal Education

For years, liberals have been the biggest critics of Austin city government. What happened when the got the power to do something about it?

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Raza Desunida

South Texas has had a revolution, but itís not the one José Angel Guttiérrez planned.

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Paper Tigers

These bureaucrats belong in a zoo.

Little Big Man

Is it worth being a United States senator when you’­re on the losing side all the time? Ask John Tower.