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Mimi Swartz is executive editor of Texas Monthly, and the author, with Sherron Watkins, of Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. She has been a staff writer at Talk and the New Yorker.

Fort Hoods Bleak World

Fort Hood's Bleak World

The base where a mental-health counselor went on a deadly rampage, a sprawling complex in an economically depressed c...

Posted 8:12 PM | Nov 5, 2009
The Power of Empty Nesters

The Power of Empty Nesters

Meet D.C.'s new influencers: women whose grown-up kids free them from domestic distractions. Mimi Swartz talks to O...

Posted 10:32 PM | Jun 30, 2009
Yes We Spam

Yes, We Spam!

A Dear John letter to David Plouffe, the architect of Barack Obama's email juggernaut. In the beginning, it was new....

Posted 11:30 AM | Dec 8, 2008
When Markets Fall So Do the Big Swinging Dicks

When Markets Fall, So Do the Big Swinging Dicks

A blow-by-blow guide to the four stages of market-related sexual dysfunction. Decades ago, during the era of takeove...

Posted 10:29 AM | Oct 17, 2008