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People at the hearing spoke about how El Pasoans remain on edge, wary of going shopping or taking their kids to school.

Editorial: Reckoning with El Paso

People like to believe things are getting better—but what happened in El Paso underscores just how little has changed.

by Andrea Valdez

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by Evan Beaty

Ted Cruz’s Plan to ‘Utterly Destroy’ Terrorism Will Utterly Encourage It

by Andrea Grimes

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Ted Cruz is Right. There’s No War on Women.

The draconian policies favored by the GOP are better described as a war on the American family.

by Andrea Grimes

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Being Charlie Hebdo

by Andrea Grimes

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Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, Charlie Hebdo?

by Peter Klein

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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