New student-loan rules will heavily affect women seeking higher education
Advocates warn that the changes, part of the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," will deepen existing racial, gender and class inequities in college access.
What would a Declaration of Independence rooted in belonging look like?
"What united us in 1776 was the idea that a country can be defined by a shared belief that freedom and equality are human rights. Without belonging, there can be no true democracy.”
Unfounded fears hamper Louisiana’s solar boom
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed projects in Iberia Parish promising millions in local tax revenue.
The fields have a stadium now
The NAACP should help top Black student athletes forgo SEC money and honor the NAACP voting-rights boycott — without having to take a back seat.
Louisiana could do more to connect mothers, young children with food aid, audit finds
A new state audit says Louisiana returned more than $111 million in unused WIC benefits from 2021 to 2024.
Hyundai’s new Donaldson steel mill sparks both hopes and fears in Louisiana
The manufacturer is building a $6 billion facility that will use cleaner technology — and potentially green hydrogen. But residents question whether they will benefit.
A ban won’t stop abortion pill access, telehealth providers say
There’s been a recent spike in demand for pills, especially from patients in Louisiana, where all the media coverage may be reaching people who didn’t know they could get abortion pills online.
Young Black men are now dying by suicide at a historic rate
New CDC data shows that young Black men are now dying by suicide at higher rates than their white peers, for the first time on record.
Long-awaited 9th Ward Stadium breaks ground behind G.W. Carver High
First envisioned in 2008, the 3,700-seat stadium will open in Fall 2027 as Raising Cane’s 9th Ward Stadium at LCMC Health Field
All cities are mortal
For those of us concerned with New Orleans’s survival and that of vulnerable communities like it, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can only be saved if it first accepts that it might not be.
