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EQUAL PAY! That was the shout heard round the world from the crowd celebrating the U.S. victory at the women’s World Cup final against the Netherlands. The U.S. team’s 28
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Governor orders guard troops to border to assist feds AUSTIN—On June 21, the day before President Trump called off a national sweep to find and detain undocumented non-citizens, Gov. Greg
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I STARTED THE POSTSCRIPT exactly one year ago. I am more than a little superstitious when it comes to numbers. When I wrote the first draft of my memoir, Blue
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HOARDING IS NOT against the law, especially if you own your house. Cities, however, have brought pressure to bear on “collectors” by enacting hoarding ordinances such as the ones in
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(Note: This article originally ran in 2018 as controversy surrounded the separation of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. It has been updated in June 2019 amid growing reports about substandard
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IN OUR MAY 30 EDITION, I published an open letter to District Attorney Franklin McDonough, urging him to respond to our questions—and, we believe, many of yours—regarding the now-concluded Texas
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I’VE GOT A GOOD FRIEND, Ayo, who told me, “Don’t use your head to break a coconut.” As I wrote about in my memoir, Blue Yarn, I lived in Lagos,
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SNEAKY. That’s what it was. Not only did the Conference Committee pull the wool over the eyes of their fellow legislators, which they did—they pulled the wool over the eyes
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An editorial treasure WHAT A GREAT first spread this week! Deserving tributes to a landmark leader; a classic column introduced with a solid dash of emotion; an editorial that translated
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SOLD! The banner went up across a For Sale sign at a house, across from the Baptist church in my town. The house had been on the market for four
