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LBJ

Lady Bird Johnson Was About More Than Wildflowers

Using audio diary recordings, new book Hiding in Plain Sight brings the former first lady out of LBJ’s shadow.

by Karl Richter

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Winning Isn’t Enough. The Next President Needs to be a Doer.

by Christopher Hooks

‘Life Was Her Art’: Nadine Eckhardt Remembered as an Influential Cultural Conduit in Texas and Washington

by Shelby Brammer and Sidney Brammer

Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture

by Andrew Roush

'The Great Society' ZACH Theatre Feb 27, 2017

ZACH Theatre’s ‘The Great Society’ Lectures More Than it Entertains

By sticking too close to history, Robert Schenkkan gives LBJ a pass.

by Gregg Barrios

LBJ Feb 11, 2015

Visiting the LBJ Library in the Shadow of Selma

by Michael Agresta

Apr 11, 2014

LBJ Library’s Civil Rights Summit: Worthy Remembrances, Missed Opportunities

by Christopher Hooks

Inside this month's print issue

Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)

Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in your state? Come to Texas and see how it works out in practice.

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The Magazine

Lady Bird’s Words

by Brad Tyer

Santa Rita Courts in Austin. Dec 13, 2012

Santa Rita Courts and the Fight for Affordable Public Housing

Public housing is no less political an issue now than it was in the 1930s.

by Nick Swartsell

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