Lege: Here Comes the Culture War

The culture war begins as conservative lawmakers file "religious freedom" bills

"...First Amend­ment and the Texas Constitution already ban imposing religious law as civil law. Lacking evidence to show Sharia..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Culture War: How to Fight the Right

Texas academics and politicians discuss the how to revive progressivism

"..."War does not determine who is right – only who..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

War Room

Christian melodrama likens prayer to war against the devil

"...this film’s tortured metaphor, a prayer space is a “war room,” and penitents are enlistees in God’s army against..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Endless War

One, two, three, four – what are we fighting for?

"..."All our knowledge of the war in Iraq has to be viewed as lacking the..."

July 27, 2007 News Column by Michael King

War Drums

The war is over, but all these people keep dying anyway …

"...imagination, or has the mainstream U.S. press declared the war in Iraq is over? Ever since the laughable handover..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

A True Patriot Lectures Us Opportunistic, Petty Dissenters on Why the War With Iraq Is Righteous

"...to remind some of you that America is at war. It isn't a war against al Qaeda as John..."

April 28, 2004 Postmarks

Fighting the War: Wilkerson sentenced, activists press Congress

Soldier faces seven months in prison for refusing Iraq service

"...discharge, for going absent without leave from the Iraq war. He will join more than 25 other soldiers nationwide..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...Prize nominee, Washington Post reporter, recreational gambler, National Book Award winner, Harvard student -- but most people associate Tim..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...Kevlar vests and helmets, preparing to execute a drug warrant at the home of Felix and Cruz Rosales in..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Tax for Peace Not War

"...After Celebration” (July 8) [News] about the costs of war using National Priorities Project statistics. I have disseminated NPP..."

Aug. 15, 2005 Postmarks

Blood-Spilling Anti-War Protesters Not Guilty

Only lesser charges stick to St. Pat's Four

"...on a flag in a protest against the Iraq war, which officially began the next day...."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SongwritingWith:Soldiers Helps Write the War After the War

Darden Smith, Mary Gauthier, and other songwriters combat PTSD one song at a time

"...military. All have experienced combat, from Vietnam through contemporary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some wear it more heavily..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Whole Woman's Health Caught Up in Anti-Abortion Turf War

Longtime Austin clinic forced to relocate

"...crisis pregnancy centers in at least 23 states. Generally religious-based centers, CPCs typically aim to dissuade women from abortion..."

Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Ye Olde Witch Hunt Tactic Makes a Comeback in Right-Wing War on Public Education

Which course is witch?

"...the violence and death toll of witch hunts, or religious beliefs. UT offers history courses covering a variety of..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Fallout From the Lege's War on Reproductive Rights

Texas waits on the full impact of legislative cuts

"...There's no better proof of the Legislature's apathy toward women's health than its disregard for Texas' alarming maternal..."

June 23, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

War on Women Heats Up in Washington, on Campaign Trail

Rally today on UT campus with Cecile Richards

"...the vast majority of women in America, regardless of religious affiliation, have used birth control at one point during..."

Feb. 17, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Imagine There Is an Unending War

"...and contain the entropic center of a Third World religious and civil conflict. Imagine the new Iraqi parliament can’t..."

Feb. 5, 2007 Postmarks

War by the (Text)book

The State Board of Education's first public hearing on social studies textbooks confirmed that, underneath the thin cloak of bureaucratic civility, an ideological battle is raging over whose story the textbooks should tell.

"...Freedom Network, a watchdog organization founded to monitor the religious right, has started a campaign dubbed "I Object!" to..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Aahhh, Sweet Utopia! Just Forget Institutionalized Segregation, the Cold War, Religious Prejudice, Blacklisting, Labor Unrest, Inequality of Women, and Polio

Jan. 9, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two

Religious zealotry can have the effect of undoing basic morality

"...My problem with a lot of religious thought is the assumption that some can completely comprehend..."

July 8, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...humane response to their human needs would go far toward ending terrorism...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...destroyed in the April 19, 1995, bombings) as the "Edward R. Murra building, obviously confusing the man for whom..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...Regarding UT president what's-his-name calling Robert Jensen a fool ["War of Words," Sept. 28], I submit this (slightly modified)..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...only superpower? The typical answers I have heard include; religious fanaticism, evil, forces opposed to freedom and democracy, and..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Texas Responds to Hobby Lobby Contraception Case

Dems, health groups and religious freedom advocates slam ruling

"...their health insurance if it does not fit their religious beliefs. Now advocates for reproductive rights in Texas are..."

June 30, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...people working for it – why they want a war with Iran. I don't understand...."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Page Two: Prayer for the Common Man

In the religious right's new democracy, principles prescribed by man have no value in the war between heaven and hell

"...a not only legitimate but crucial goal in the war on terror is pissing off and unnerving the Democrat/liberal/progressive/dissident..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Military taxation resisters direct their money toward peace

"...the certainty of death and taxes may be true, anti-war activists in Austin are working against what they see..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Kingdom of Heaven

Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.

"...Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, Liam Neeson, Ghassan Massoud and Edward Norton. At the end of the 12th century, in..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Abbott to Refugees: Drop Dead

Religious orgs condemn governor for refugee ban

"...In general, refugee programs have involvement from religious organizations, which have strongly criticized Abbott's decision. The Christian..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

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