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We’re now posting our ever-expanding letters section online, with new letters daily. This, of course, brings up a whole new set of quandaries.

by Louis Black August 15, 2003September 30, 2025

News

Council Gets Un-PATRIOT-ic

The City Council considers making Austin the first Texas city to condemn the USA PATRIOT Act.

by Lauri Apple August 8, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

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The Republican right’s hypocritical rhetoric machine has become so dazzling and effective it can only be viewed as (highly successful) conceptual art.

by Louis Black August 1, 2003September 30, 2025

News

Naked City

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Edited By Mike Clark-MadisonJune 6, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

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Songs of democracy in distress

by Louis Black April 25, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

Let us hope the war in Iraq is quick, the death toll is low, and that all dire predictions prove unfounded; let’s also hope that we haven’t destroyed our own country ideologically in order to save it.

by Louis Black March 21, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

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If war is inevitable, you might as well be in Austin, enjoying South by Southwest.

by Louis Black March 14, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

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Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics — the consequences of Bush’s successes.

by Louis Black February 7, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

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More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

by Louis Black December 20, 2002September 30, 2025

Columns

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In the wake of the Republican Dream Team’s electoral sweep, expect the governmental services you depend on to be diminished.

by Louis Black November 8, 2002September 30, 2025

News

Salamander Faces Summer in Court

The Save Our Springs Alliance asks for more information regarding FWS’s opinion on the Barton Springs Watershed.

by Amy Smith June 7, 2002September 30, 2025

Columns

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Ralph Nader and the Green Party are willfully naive about the consequences of their recent electoral actions, but events such as their upcoming People Have the Power Tour are the birthplaces of broader, more effective coalitions, the setting for new alliances.

by Louis Black January 25, 2002March 6, 2026

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