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Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian reacts to a Texas stop of Washington on Monday.The Texas Longhorns were about to close out the game. They could feel it in their bones. As head coach Steve Sarkisian had told them before Monday’s national semifinal versus the University of Washington: “We didn’t come this far just to come this far.” Later, as players and coaches dissected a gut punch of a 37–31 loss, they kept coming back to that feeling. How they believed they were going to write their own ending. How this season was different from all those other seasons when Texas routinely folded with games on the line.How, with fifteen seconds remaining in Monday’s game, they were about to put the finishing touch on a game that would validate the rebirth of football on the Forty Acres. “I was…

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GOP-Civil-War-Paxton-Impeachment-School-VouchersWhat does it mean to be a Texas Republican? This year saw the state GOP tear itself apart over that question. The impeachment and subsequent acquittal of Attorney General Ken Paxton and a protracted fight over school vouchers—a program that would let parents use taxpayer dollars to subsidize their children’s private education—exposed schisms in the party that controls all three branches of the state government. The GOP has broken into warring factions—pro- and anti-Paxton, pro- and anti-voucher—all claiming to represent True Conservatism. The “pro-Paxton” wing accuses its rivals of being Republicans in name only (RINOs) with the ferocity of the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee denouncing communist infiltrators, real and imagined, in the 1950s. Conventional wisdom holds that this civil war is roughly divided between…

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A Texan's Guide to Santa FeAmanda Tucker was seven years old when she visited Santa Fe for the first time. During a family vacation,  she found her senses overwhelmed by sounds, smells, and sights that sharply contrasted with those of her hometown in Houston. “The landscape was really intoxicating, with the mesas and deserts and mountains,” Tucker said, adding that Santa Fe was also the first place she ever saw jackrabbits. “As a kid, this was like a wonderland.” That trip kicked off a lifelong love affair with Santa Fe. During one particularly memorable visit with her mom when she was a teenager, Tucker stayed at the Silver Saddle Motel, a folksy place just off old Route 66. “It was the first time I’d been to a drive-up motel,” Tucker said. “It…

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