Jimmy Carter

Everything You Need to Know About the Bush Center/Library/Theater/Museum/Thing

Journalists across the globe have been busy churning out copy about the looming Thursday dedication of the Bush Presidential Center at SMU. Some of the pieces wrestle with the Bush legacy, some describe the center itself. Others explore the practical effect that a massive ceremony featuring five pre ... More >>

Today, Democrats Are Officially Gunning for Texas' Electoral College Votes

This is day one of the Battle of Texas, which is mostly marked by a website launch. Battleground Texas, the Democratic Party's efforts to shake the GOP hold on the state, officially starts today. The site comes with a nifty graphic showing a red Texas filling up with blue (it's pretty low right now) ... More >>

Texas AG Greg Abbott Warns Hillary Clinton to Keep European Election Monitors from Messing with Texas

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, in a bit of international chest-pounding, sent a strongly worded letter to the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe threatening criminal charges if the group carried out a hinted-at plan to show up in Texas come November 6. ... More >>

The Favorite Foods of All 44 Presidents

​After an exhaustive search of public records and historical documents at the Library of Congress (read: drunken Google search), we are ready to honor President's Day with a comprehensive list of the foods enjoyed by our fearless leaders of the past. Throughout this process one question continued ... More >>

Party Like It's 1979 as Robison, Pastors Help Their "Prayer Partner" Perry Run for President

The in-box is filled this morning with more news concerning Rick Perry's "day of prayer and fasting" in Houston next month -- you know, The Response. Let's begin with this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have forward a piece I first saw this morning on Startlegram great Bud Kennedy's Facebook feed: ... More >>

Election Coup: Following Bruce Sherbet's Adios, Only the Man from Plains Can Save Us Now

​I'm serious. I want Jimmy Carter to come monitor our elections. We need his help. So, if you were around here eight years ago, when Dallas was getting national attention for vote fraud, you might be especially concerned about recent developments in the county elections department. Until the ... More >>

Night Catches Us: A Brutally Honest Look at Black Power.

Barack Obama and Our Most Athletic Presidents

​Wasn't exactly Cortland Finnegan vs. Andre Johnson, but The Prez got into a scuffle last Friday. On the basketball court. With an elbow. Barack Obama received 12 stitches to a cut on his lower lip after an errant elbow during a pick-up game by Rey Decerega, the Director of Programs for ... More >>

For Those Living in Ground Zero for Drug Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis is Personal

Badlands

Can a Good Democrat Vote for Perry?

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

What No. 1 Songs Tell Us About Inaugurations

History, as predicted by Inauguration Day's No. 1 hits

The Death of Former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell and the Dallas Connection

Griffin Bell, Jimmy Carter's U.S. Attorney General, died yesterday at the age of 90; he'd been suffering from pancreatic cancer in an Atlanta hospital. News of his death has resurrected an old Dallas story -- that of Santos Rodríguez, the 12-year-old boy who, in July 1973, was shot in the head by a ... More >>

Blind Boys of Alabama

Friday, November 21, at McFarlin Auditorium

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders

He Did What?

He knows what the Prez does behind Oval doors

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

That ’70s Show

Waiting for Bill

Anything But Plain

See Demme's view of Jimmy Carter at the Modern

Film 2007: Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen

Moon Shot

Apollo vets hit the big screen

Jimmy Carter Documentary Full of Good Intentions

Demme follows Carter's controversial book tour and ends up with the same old narrative

Chef's Menu

The Shootist

Terry Anderson thought he'd be in Athens right now, chasing his lifelong dream of Olympic gold. Instead, he's in prison, his life plugged full of holes.

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

Decent Folk

Summer Hymns' summer hymns define the purdy South

Down the Drain

Plus: Stars in His Eyes; No Military, No Peace; The Havard Legend

Green Giant

Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

Something about Stephan

After 25 years in Dallas' restaurant jungle, Stephan Pyles has come out respected and rich. How does he stay so clean?

Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Dowd's twisted, desperate music sounds good at any age

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

The Resurrection of Sandy Kress

Or, how a Democrat and reviled former DISD board president found a happy home pushing "educational acoountability" for the GOP

Raging Waters

Inspired by Patty Hearst, Cecil B. Demented rails against the dying of the cinema

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Charlie Daniels Band

Fatal Perfection

Don Crowder was obsessed with being the best--as a lawyer, family man, and friend. So why did he kill himself?

Parting shots

As Laura Miller rides off to tilt at political windmills, we recall some of her choicest words

Pleasure chained

Mediterraneo at the Quadrangle is even better than itself

Wrestling With Tragedy

As the sole survivor of his family's ring dynasty, Kevin Von Erich struggles to keep a painful past alive.

Flying blind

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

Stick it in your ear

Frank Mitchell thought he was a made man in the all-powerful 'family' that controls professional golf. Then the PGA Tour shoved him out into the cold.

U.S. Reprehensible

Eddie Bernice Johnson has burned through more than 50 staffers during her four years in Congress. She says she's just demanding. They say she's a tyrant.

The Learning Curve

Earnest eggheads came to Texas with an idea that for-profit schools can save public education. So far, it ain't working.

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners

A great spirit

Barbara Jordan, a woman of firsts, was faithful to the last

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Mo better

Remembering Mo Udall, a truly decent man

Left to right

Thoughts on GATT, retraining, corporate welfare, and Bosnia