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Most Recent in Politics:

1Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

2Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

3Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

4Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

5Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

6The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

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Direct Quote: Grief’s Gift

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Renaissance Woman

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Tue, Sep 1, 2015 |

Jennifer Rose Davis started her career as a graphic designer. Tt was her hobbies and a later bachelor's degree in music that led her to a career in designing, a...Read More

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Direct Quote: Keeper of the Creek

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Fri, Jul 31, 2015 |

Joanna Wolaves is the executive of the Shoal Creek Conservancy, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to help restore and protect Austin’s Shoal Creek. ...Read More

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Direct Quote: Celebrating Gender Diversity Through Art

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Tue, Jun 30, 2015 |

Drew Riley is a 29-year-old Austin artist and creator of “Gender Portraits,” a series of paintings accompanied by personal stories of gender nonconformists....Read More

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Direct Quote: An Inside View

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Thu, May 28, 2015 |

Lauren Johnson knows all too well the stigma that's often associated with having a felony conviction. Johnson now advocates with Austin-based nonprofit Grassroo...Read More

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Direct Quote: Words on a Stage

Mon, Apr 27, 2015 |

Three-time slam poetry champion, Ebony Stewart, travels around the country using spoken word to confront issues on sexual health, gender and body-image issues....Read More

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Direct Quote: Digging into Austin’s East Side

Fri, Mar 27, 2015 |

Community activist Elizabeth Walsh believes there's room for a lot more more creativity and respect in the gentrification of East Austin....Read More

Direct Quote: Playing It Forward

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Thu, Feb 26, 2015 |

Seventeen years after its humble start, Anthropos Arts has music teachers on 19 campuses reaching 150 students each semester....Read More

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Direct Quote: True Colors

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 |

"These murals served a purpose. They were an educational tool ... they were informative historically, politically. They were about information that had been neg...Read More

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Direct Quote: Helping the Blind Experience the Arts

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Thu, Nov 13, 2014 |

“I’ve done audio description in a theater where people would come up to me and say, ‘What does it matter? They’re blind!’"...Read More

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