News & Politics

Ticket to Ride?

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

O Freeway, My Freeway

Help! I’m a prisoner on the freeway and can’t get off.

The Enemy Within

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

Behind the Lines

Bringing it all back home.

Labor Pains

Second-generation refinery workers don’t believe in politicians or corporations and some of them don’t believe in unions. The question is, do they believe in strikes?

Trouble in Paradise

Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.

Behind the Lines

Stalking elusive birds and energy czars.

Behind the Lines

The uselessness of college.

Behind the Lines

What energy crisis?

I Was a Bum

Hey, buddy, can you spare a dime?

Behind the Lines

Why we don’t endorse candidates.

Election Tip Sheet

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

Daddy’s Money

The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!

The Agony and the Allergy

You don’t have to move to Arizona to cure your allergies, but you may have to get rid of your cat.

Behind the Lines

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.

Behind the Lines

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?

1978 Bum Steer Awards

Last year’s biggest bloopers, bleepers, blunders, bungles, boo-boos, bad breaks, bobbles, bevues, balks, and Briscoeisms.

The Last of the Big-Time Spenders

It’s not Diamond Jim Brady, Bet a Million Gates, an Arab sheik, or Liberace. It’s a library.

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.

King of the Catalogs

Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?

Behind the Lines

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.

Behind the Lines

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

Jennie

A child with Down’s syndrome is neither Mongolian nor an idiot.

The Long Road North

Across the river and into the brush; an eyewitness account of the journey of two wetbacks.

Behind the Lines

“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.

I Was a Spy in the Second Grade

I escaped once, but they sent me back.

Support Your Local Police

If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.

Behind the Lines

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.

The Informer

The secret life of the man who tells the Man.

The Cactus Curtain

The word going across the border is: Uncle Sam doesn’t want you.

Behind the Lines

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.

Behind the Lines

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

Diamonds Aren’t Forever

Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.

The Power

Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.

Behind the Lines

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

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The Eggheads and I

In which our author finds it’s one thing to be a genius; it’s another to be smart.

The Lifesavers

Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’­s emergency room is a night of the living dead.

Behind the Lines