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Eugenics, or the pseudoscience of human breeding, reached the height of its notoriety in the early 1900s but never truly ...
The Statesman has gathered 11 Juneteenth events to celebrate the state and federal holiday, from car shows to cookouts, in ...
This is the story that underpins “ The Slip ,” a new novel out this week by Austin-based author Lucas Schaefer. The novel ...
Texas’ Senate Bill 13 empowers school boards to decide which books are permitted in their school libraries. It also allows ...
AUSTIN Texas Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham announced May 7 the pre-sale of the General Land Office’s (GLO) book, Texas Takes Shape, a comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas ...
As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government ...
School boards could yank books off school library shelves if locals think they’re profane or indecent under legislation that ...
The little people are home, and they are hungry ... Matthew compiled this list of over 20 restaurants in Austin that allow kids to eat for free with a paying adult. After a few years hosting ...
Thorne Dreyer, Notes from the Underground: 77 Articles that Bring the Past to Life. Austin: New Journalism Project, 2025. 476pp, $27.00 In the days of Campus Movement yore, i.e., the 1960s-70s ...
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...
Maxine LaQueene, Austin drag ... stop trans people from updating their gender on birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and other documents. Brad Pritchett of Equality Texas, the statewide ...