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Mar 25, 2022 · Before Jon Stewart and John Oliver or even Gail Collins in The New York Times, there was Molly Ivins. She was the trailblazing Texas journalist known for her cheerful, biting, political wit.
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies.
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executive director, American Civil Liberties Union I was personally and deeply saddened by the death of legendary journalist and columnist Molly Ivins, who passed away on January 31 after a long battle with cancer. Molly was a much-loved member of the ACLU family, a steadfast supporter of civil liberties, and I had the highest respect for her staun...
Host, RadioNation From too many miles away, I read the obituaries for the columnist Molly Ivins. The British Guardianpublished an appreciation with a charming photograph and other newspapers noted her death, but Molly Ivins demands a more visceral form of mourning because it’s not just her prose we’ll miss, it’s her presence. The first time I saw h...
Founding editor, The Texas Observer Molly Ivins was more than one of the stars of the progressive media in her lifetime. She was the one of these stars who reached so many people with her down-home explanations and serial horse-laughs that in exchange for the money she earned for the mainstream media, they permitted her to penetrate the soul of the...
Author and former editor, The Texas Observer On a Sunday in September, Molly Ivins caught an early-morning flight from Austin to Flagstaff, Arizona. She had just concluded yet another six-week regimen of chemotherapy aimed at checking the metastasizing disease that had started as breast cancer in 1999. From Flagstaff she traveled to Lee’s Ferry to ...
Open Society Institute Damn if Molly Ivins didn’t up and die on the day Joe Biden said Barack Obama might be the first clean black man to run for President, both stories sharing the front page of the New York Timesthe day before Groundhog Day. Lucky for Biden, and every other politician “leaving a village without its idiot” or “weaker than bus stat...
Washington Correspondent, The Nation Molly Ivins always said she wanted to write a book about the lonely experience of East Texas civil rights campaigners to be titled No One Famous Ever Came. While the television screens and newspapers told the stories of the marches, the legal battles and the victories of campaigns against segregation in Alabama ...
Jan 31, 2007 · Columnist and author Molly Ivins, who died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer, was one of the most notable transplanted Texans of recent years and, like...
Aug 1, 2022 · As far back as fifty years ago, she was at the forefront of issues that have taken on even greater urgency today: she fought for reproductive rights, labeled unlicensed-gun owners a blight, and...
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Feb 1, 2007 · Molly Ivins, the irrepressibly irreverent political humorist and syndicated columnist who skewered legislators, governors and presidents, especially those from her beloved Texas, died Wednesday...
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Jan 1, 2007 · Co-authors Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose chronicled numerous instances of actions taken under the Act that courts later ruled violated fundamental provisions of the US Constitution. Ivins and Dubose collaborated with a style that avoided being dry and clinical on topics that require considerable detail.
