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Author Calvin Trillin Speaks With The Texas Observer
Texas Observer editor Bob Moser speaks with author Calvin Trillin about his book, Trillin on Texas. Full Story
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Crazy Hearts
It was October 2008, a few weeks before that epic and tearful night when a non-white man finally got elected president of the United [...] Full Story -
Woe Unto the Hypocrite
Late in April, beneath the mainstream radar, Rick Perry took his “Please Don’t Elect Me President” road show to the North Texas studios of [...] Full Story -
Run, Rick, Run
It was the strangest thing. Mortifying but illuminating. Like Paul on the road to Damascus, or Donald Trump suddenly realizing he’d been out-Americaned by [...] Full Story -
Author Calvin Trillin Speaks With The Texas Observer
Texas Observer editor Bob Moser speaks with author Calvin Trillin about his book, Trillin on Texas. Full Story -
The White-Power Legislature
Back in February, at a rally protesting anti-immigrant legislation, state Rep. Lon Burnam raised some eyebrows by letting loose with the “R” word. “You [...] Full Story
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Rick Perry has spent much of 2009 on a one-man mission to ensure that Texas retains its reputation, in the post-Dubya era, for swaggering [...] Full Story -
Real Women of Texas
Like most folks who weren’t born in Texas—and took their time getting here—I’ve spent more of my life imbibing stereotypes and myths than absorbing [...] Full Story -
“My Kind of People”
The estimated 4,000 Tea Party folks who turned out for a “Stand Up for Texas” rally at the state Capitol on Sept. 5 apparently [...] Full Story -
Flipping the Health-Care Script
I set out early and blurry on the final Saturday in August, bound for Waco to witness one of the last town-hall free-for-alls in [...] Full Story -
Gay Panic
Back in the good old wonderful days, Texas politicians knew how to insult each other with style. (Sam Houston on legislator Thomas Jefferson Green: [...] Full Story