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3Editorial: Reckoning with El Paso

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5Janis Joplin’s Inimitable Voice

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by John Wright

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Jack Evans and George Harris, who have been together for 54 years, became the first same-sex couple to marry in Dallas County after the U.S. Supreme Court's his...Read More

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