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Justice Matters

This national moment of grief and mourning can become a marker of public shame or a symbol of American renewal

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph -
Justice Matters

‘This is all of our shame, this is all of our concern’

David Judson -
Justice Matters

How and why the legal DNA encoded in our justice system drives police to target and abuse minorities

Barry Kahn -
Justice Matters

Viewing racism in the data of a city – a conversation with Austin’s Meme Styles

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Justice Matters

A conversation with Professor Richard Reddick on the rise and – and increasingly the fall – of the ‘Lost Cause’ of Confederate monuments

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Justice Matters

Austin’s segregation mirrored in the devastating burden COVID-19 imposes on city’s poor, uninsured and yet ‘essential’

Robert Brehm -
Justice Matters

A cautious thumbs-up for America’s mayors and local leaders facing off with Trump

David Judson -
First Person

A short letter to a long ago self

Banu Paksoy -
Reviews

Life at the end of the ‘Age of Miracles’ — a look at why progress itself makes plagues and pandemics more likely and devastating

Robert Brehm -
Reviews

Misremembering Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X – how America rewrote a legacy

David Judson -
Tales of the Global City

Cybertrucks on the Colorado – how Tesla’s Gigafactory can save Austin’s urban river

Christopher Brown -
The Renewal Series

How COVID-19 has robbed children of pediatric visits, parents of child care and students of social interaction

Robert Brehm -
Justice Matters

Remembering the day 57 years ago when the unfinished work of building a new world began

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph -
Events

Urbānitūs Roundtable Series – Episode #1: COVID-19 and the education crisis

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Reviews

America’s zero-sum, tooth-and-nail political battlescape in the microcosm of Wisconsin

Robert Brehm -
Tales of the Global City

Beyond the pandemic, look for Austin’s creative energy to rival the ‘Roaring Twenties’ of a century ago

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The Renewal Series

Back to school: An education system riven by failure, inequity and injustice revealed by COVID-19

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Justice Matters

Texas Gov. Abbott’s “Back the Blue” pledge to seize Austin’s police department is a return to Jim Crow

Jeremi Suri -
Justice Matters

Why plans by Austin and other cities to reimagine public safety don’t literally intend to ‘Defund the Police’

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph -

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The Renewal Series - Coping with COVID-19

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The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

Brett Hurt -
thinker

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

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As the pandemic becomes more dire, a fog of sorrow coils around life amid COVID-19

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Spotting the new horizon after weeks of ‘Dead Reckoning’ through the pandemic storm

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A new flu-like virus distant, abstract and then suddenly… ‘This is real, this is bad’

How Texas rebuffed billions in ACA aid to insure the poor, and how Austin and other cities could fix it

Back to school: An education system riven by failure, inequity and injustice revealed by COVID-19

How COVID-19 has robbed children of pediatric visits, parents of child care and students of social interaction

Austin’s segregation mirrored in the devastating burden COVID-19 imposes on city’s poor, uninsured and yet ‘essential’

‘We did not choose to live in an interesting time… it chose us’

The unique, universal and slow-moving trauma of a disease that attacks our patience along with our bodies

COVID-19 has killed more than 100,000 while racism has killed millions

We miss the full frame of healthcare when we see COVID-19 as the only culprit

What the architects of emerging COVID-19 coalitions might learn from leagues of old

There is a reason cities are outpacing national governments in the face of COVID-19

The unique promise of Austin’s convening power

After disaster: history and renewal in the modern city

Imagine an election this November where Austin breaks voter turnout records

Let’s renew the American Dream with the Austin Ethos

Tales of the Global City

Despite hyper-partisan discourse about cities, the fates of urban, suburban and rural America are thoroughly intertwined

Robert Brehm -
Though much of our idealist art, iconography, and symbolism paints the American story as a tale of rustic pastoralism and life on the frontier,...

Beyond the pandemic, look for Austin’s creative energy to rival the ‘Roaring Twenties’ of a century ago

urbanitus -
Not so fast, argues the head of iconic Austin City Limits to those who fear the pandemic will sweep away both the city’s claim...

Cybertrucks on the Colorado – how Tesla’s Gigafactory can save Austin’s urban river

Christopher Brown -
In the middle of this summer’s second wave COVID-19 outbreak, the Chamber of Commerce boosters of Austin, Travis County and Del Valle pulled a...

A conversation with urban designer Ken Greenberg on ways COVID-19 is forcing us to reimagine cities and community

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The challenges to cities posed by the COVID-19 epidemic are enormous, argues Canadian urban designer Ken Greenberg in this interview conducted for the podcast...

Views & Reviews

Runes & Rhymes

When That Day Comes

We’re waiting for the day when we can say, it’s over, foreverWe’re tired of all the lies, and all the guys who’ve gone to...
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By Allergy and Allegory

There is a ghostland somewhere near Of spirits of the Earth And aging oxygenated dirt And there is hope and there is hate But no one ever shows up late
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1,006/133

The border of Mexico is exactly 1,006 miles away from the hospital where I was born. Which means that had I been born, say, 1,007 miles to the south my destiny would be aligned under very different stars.
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For John Lewis 1940-2020

O holy martyr when you crossed the river to be beaten by the state troopers of the Promised Land O redeemer of Dixieland when you felt the clubs touch skin and blood and blood touch dirt
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