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Most Recent in Border:

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Most Recent in Education:

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4The New Ensemble

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2The Flâneur of Downtown Dallas

3Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas

4How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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5The Ghosts of Jefferson

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4What’s a Bookstore for?

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Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

2Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

3Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6Parallel Planes

Urban Cowgirl

Edsel U.

by Ruth Pennebaker

Tue, Jun 7, 2011

Using a car analogy, [University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell] said a $10,000 degree would be more like a Chevrolet Bel Air, a midlevel...Read More

Shut My Mouth

Since when did "uterus" become an offensive term—especially when you're talking about regulating abortion?

by Ruth Pennebaker

Wed, May 11, 2011

In the immortal words of the great Tammy Wynette, sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. Anyway, that’s the tune I’ve been humming — “Stand by Your Man,�...Read More

Bringing Up Baby

by Ruth Pennebaker

Wed, Mar 30, 2011

On a wintry day in February, I went to the Texas Senate to hear citizens and medical and legal experts testify about the sonogram bill. You know, the bill we’...Read More

What’s in a Nombre?

by Ruth Pennebaker

Tue, Mar 1, 2011

All you have to do is move and you get this question 600 times a day: “What’s your new address?” Funny they—the friends, the bankers, the credit-card ca...Read More

Home Soul

by Ruth Pennebaker

Tue, Feb 1, 2011

We’ve lived in our house in West Austin for almost 14 years—the longest we’ve ever lived anywhere. Our kids finished school here, brooding and backtalking...Read More

One Texan’s Xmas List

by Ruth Pennebaker

Mon, Dec 20, 2010

I’ve finally learned that you have to ask for what you want in this life. I know, I know—getting what you want is another matter. But it’s been a hard yea...Read More

Bloody Bloody Tea Party

by Ruth Pennebaker

Tue, Nov 23, 2010

When I wasn’t working on a migraine, when I wasn’t despondent about the future of the world, when I was feeling halfway brave, I occasionally tuned in to TV...Read More

What’s Remarkable is How Serious It Was

Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity

by Ruth Pennebaker

Mon, Nov 1, 2010

My husband and I were two of the hundreds of thousands who showed up for the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C. Saturday. It was one of those per...Read More

The Textbook Plot

by Ruth Pennebaker

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

The State Board of Education today instructed publishers to curtail positive coverage of Islam and include more favorable treatment of Christianity in future wo...Read More

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