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THORNE DREYER / JOURNALISM / Central to the new Rag’s voice is to retain the levity of the original
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2025 Since editors Ava Hosseini and Kira Small — with the help of managing editor Grant Lindberg — started their seemingly modest endeavor to resurrect the underground newspaper, The Rag, that … Continue reading
SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / HISTORY / CodePink: Austin’s history is alive at the Austin History Center
CodePink Austin at “I Miss America” pageant in Million Musicans March, March 17, 2007. Photo by Jim Turpin. By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / November 27, 2025 AUSTIN — With the current U.S. administration trying to excise … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was 20 years ago. We’ve kept Rag history alive … Continue reading
JOSHUA BROWN / LIFE DURING WARTIME SPECIAL / Remembering Dick Cheney
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Tagged Cartoon, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Joshua Brown, Life During Wartime, Rag Bloggers, Vice President
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HENRY MECREDY / REMEMBRANCE / Gavan Duffy was a scholar with a sense of humor
By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2025 Gavan Duffy was born December 8, 1949, in Massachusetts. He passed away in Syracuse, New York, on September 6, 2025. He graduated from the University of Houston and taught political … Continue reading
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Tagged Gavan Duffy, Henry Mecredy, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Scholar, Space City!, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics
By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans that their seemingly all-powerful but culturally backward cousins are slow to understand the … Continue reading
CARL DAVIDSON / COMMENTARY / Trump as big-city crimefighter?
Cartoon courtesy of LeftLinks. By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2025 This article was originally posted on August 15, 2025, as a weekly editorial on LeftLinks by its editor Carl Davidson and is cross-posted to The … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Commentary, Crime, Criminal Justice, Donald Trump, LeftLinks, Rag Bloggers, Recidivism, U.S. Prisons
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MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today
J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 5, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Michael Meeropol, Political Analysis, Rag Bloggers, Vice President
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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / It’s flooding down in Texas
Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. Caption: Cow Creek and what was Texas State Highway 1431, just … Continue reading
MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues
E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on June 27, 2025 by Michael Meeropol … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one should be harmed for their beliefs, views, or opinions. Yet our country, the … Continue reading →