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Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died at 91 last week, liked pausing by roadsides everywhere in Texas to examine plants, pocket seeds and smell the air.
Watchdog Organization Calls for (Another) Investigation into Failed Texas Anti-Abortion Group
Former Heidi Group employees say a new effort by the group to secure family planning funding inflates the organization’s track record.
A New Book on the American Political Divide Calls, Unconvincingly, for Civility
The authors of Polarized are thoughtful exemplars of a lost ethic who care more about commonality than victory.
