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In 1993, the Hyde Park Baptist Child Development Center hired a teacher who proved to be a little 'rough' with the children. Now the church is being sued for ignoring alleged child abuse.

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Is Free Speech F****d?

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

Republican stewardship of our government has miserably failed. Polls show that Americans finally realize this, but we don't know if that will translate into votes.

Bob Watada, father of Lt. Ehren Watada – who refused to go to Iraq and who has publicly denounced the war repeatedly – comes to Austin as part of national speaking tour

On September 28, key rights guaranteed by our Constitution, plus the central tenet of the Magna Carta, were nullified by an act of Congress – specifically, the Military Commissions Act of 2006

This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.

The new Austin Environmental Directory – part investigative environmental reports, part encyclopedia of sustainability, and part yellow pages of everything green in Austin – is out

To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life

Light and Darkness: In the bright cacophony of black and white, a confession of despair and an ode to uncertainty

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Lawrence Wright on 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9 / 11'

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The greatest danger to Israel, in the long term, is its dependence on the United States

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

Stan Knee will be one of thousands of former U.S. police officers now working abroad in lucrative postings, typically as private employees of international conglomerates under contract to the U.S. government

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An Austin playwright discovers Sin City by going to Louisville

United 93 is a sober, humanistic portrait of America’s literal “first responders,” who in an instant were forced to wrap their heads around a new, unfathomable reality.

Cindy Sheehan and others who have lost loved ones in Iraq come to Austin

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The theatre of outrage: What happened when I slipped into the packed house for the one-on-one with Henry Rollins at SXSW last Sunday

The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature

Senate candidate Barbara Ann Radnofsky demands incumbent Hutchison 'end the war on children,' lays out proposals for aiding public education