Molly Ivins

Most Recent in Politics:

1In a System that Encourages Corruption, Prison-Bound Senator Carlos Uresti was Inevitable

2In 2017, Texas Union Membership Rose at the Highest Rate in Over Three Decades

3ICE Criminal Investigators Ask to Be Distanced from Detentions, Deportations in Letter to Kirstjen Nielsen

4The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

5Four Takeaways from the Texas Democratic Convention

6‘There’s More of Us’: Texas Democrats Once Again Counting on Hispanic Turnout

Most Recent in Environment:

1Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

2How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

3Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

4Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

5No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

6Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

Most Recent in Border:

1ICE Criminal Investigators Ask to Be Distanced from Detentions, Deportations in Letter to Kirstjen Nielsen

2New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious ‘Tent City’ in South Texas

3Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

4The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

5As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

6Despite Trump’s Executive Order, This Mom Still Doesn’t Know if She’ll See Her 3 Kids Again

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

2Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

3Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

4In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

6Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

2New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

3Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

4‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

5What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

6Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

3Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

5Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

6The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

Most Recent in Books:

1Announcing the Eighth Annual Observer Short Story Contest

2A Vampire Book That Does Not Suck

3A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

4‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

5A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

6‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Molly Ivins

By Molly Ivins:

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The Assault on Freedom

by Molly Ivins | Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:00 am CST

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Matters of Indignition

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 |

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Four Foul Years

Fri, Nov 19, 2004 |

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Molly's Fans and Foes Weigh In

Fri, Jul 30, 2004 |

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How to Sink a School System

Fri, Mar 26, 2004 |

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Stick It To Principle

Fri, Jan 30, 2004 |

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The Blues in Belzoni

By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

Fri, Oct 10, 2003 |

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your families. –George W. Bush, January 27, 2000 Eugene Scalia would be a dedicated advocate to the policies of the Department of Labor. –Ari Fleischer, Spokesman for George … Read More

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Creeping Corporatism

Fri, Jun 6, 2003 |

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The Answer is Justice

Fri, Oct 26, 2001 |

Actually, this is pathetic. And I say this as one who supported military action in the wake of the attacks. I still think we’re dealing with a crime, not a war, but it wasn’t a crime Interpol could solve. Who … Read More

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What One Hears in Paris

Fri, Sep 28, 2001 |

In a journalism school long ago, the students used to argue with a favorite professor, the much-loved John Hohenberg, who maintained that when one was reporting from a foreign country, all one needed to do was go out and interview … Read More

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