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Observer Authors
- Diana Anhalt
- Jake Bernstein
- Nate Blakeslee
- Charles Bowden
- Robert Bryce
- Lee Merrill Byrd
- Bobby Byrd
- Paul Christensen
- Susan DeMarco
- Louis Dubose
- Ronnie Dugger
- James E. McWilliams
- Michael Erard
- James K. Galbraith
- Dagoberto Gilb
- Marian Haddad
- Jim Hightower
- James Hoggard
- Molly Ivins
- Gary A. Keith
- Steven G. Kellman
- Peter La Salle
- Char Miller
- A.G. Mojtabai
- David Montejano
- Dave Oliphant
- Karen Olsson
- Azita Osanloo
- Joe Nick Patoski
- Emily Rapp
- Jan Reid
- Geoff Rips
- David Romo
- John Ross
- Robert Sherrill
- Matthew Stevenson
- David Theis
- Eileen Welsome
- Michele Wucker
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- Summertime Sketches
- The Story Thus Far
- The Cuban Enigma
- Paul Christensen compares three books (Ismaelillo, Before Fidel: The Cuba I Remember, and Closed for Repairs) that plot a trajectory in the tormented life of Cuba, the island at our back door and one of the great enigmas of the American political imagination.
- Shooting For Love in Reynosa
- The U.S.-Mexico border town of Reynosa is notorious for its demoralizing poverty and soulless maquiladoras. Texas filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin determined to find a story in Reynosa that would connect viewers with residents. They found their subjects in Cecy and Camilo, a young couple from the far south of Mexico, who work for pitiful wages but still managed to build a small home.
- Misfortunate Son
- Houston writer David Theis reviews the Oliver Stone film W., finding at its heart a story about the troubled relationship between George W. Bush and his father.
- Hell No, They Won't Go
- Reviewing We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, Josh Rosenblatt finds that democracy and war make terrible bedfellows.
- Stand and Deliver
- Intermediate Italian
- There Was Something About Mary
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American Ideas
In April, William H. Goetzmann, a Pulitzer-prize winning historian at The University of Texas at Austin, told the Austin American-Statesman that as a boy his family had rented an apartment in St. Paul, Minnesota where John Dillinger had once lived. The enamel surface of the bathtub had spots eaten away ...
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