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Featuring "The Bloody Billion," "Western Art," "The Silver Lining" and more stories from across the state of Texas.

Featuring "Funky Riviera," "The Long Boyhood of George H.W. Bush," "Texas Primer: The Name Belt" and more stories from across the state of Texas.

Change Agent is a play based on historical events, in this case the life of American painter Mary Pinchot Meyer (Andrea Abello) and her relationship with President John F. Kennedy (Luis Vega). The two meet at a college dance in 1936, continually run into each other at major world events, such as in San Francisco at the founding of the United Nations in 1945, and develop a friendship and then relationship culminating during Kennedy's presidency.

Buy this issue The COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of going away, with a new wave of SARS-CoV-2 now occurring in the form of the more readily transmittable…

<strong>Editorial:</strong> Literature can be surprisingly accurate in predicting what lies ahead

TO VIEW A J. M. W. TURNER sunset in Texas, as I did recently in Fort Worth at the Kimbell Art Museum’s “Turner’s Modern World”—an exhibition making its stateside debut after premiering at Tate Britain in London—is to wish Turner might have had the opportunity to paint a Texas sunset. In fact, I came away from the show thinking that in a slightly altered universe, Turner could have been a Texan. The ferocious clouds the lifelong Londoner dangles above cowering people evoke the feeling...

How to make Beltway friends and influence policy.

Eight years of awful leadership have left New York in desperate need of revival.

Roth's Nemesis read in the age of the coronavirus is a study in grief and loss and the limits of personal or divine responsibility.

2021 was going to be about rebuilding, restoring, recovering… Then the Omicron variant arrived.