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Author: C.W. Cannon

Starbucks in Faubourg Marigny? There goes the neighborhood …

October 12, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
Why New Orleanians get all het up over their hot coffee.

College today: pricey socialist hotbed or merciless exploiter of untenured labor?

September 3, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
For all Trump's attacks on people who think, the big problem with college is cost.

Anxiety and authenticity: Are ‘super-natives’ loving New Orleans to death?

June 1, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
One irony: STRs are gutting the neighborhoods tourists want to stay in.

The NRA swaps guns for a sledgehammer and swings it at America

March 2, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
With both Trump and the NRA in his pocket, Putin must be laughing up his sleeve

Harassed as a boy, libidinous as a man: But don’t call me an abuser

December 8, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
A blunt meditation on sexual politics in our time

A stab at immunizing myself against the Trump era’s culture of contempt

September 30, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Should the NFL fire players who took a kneel?

Inept Trump lays bare the naked truth about the Republican Party

August 18, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
The 'Southern Strategy,' decades old, has come to full flower

Another one bites the dust: For bookstores, the Internet’s just part of the problem

June 26, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Political overload is also taking its toll.

Memo to liberal media: New Orleans hasn’t just ‘joined’ movement against white supremacy

May 7, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
A moment in which we deserve to love ourselves

Behind the Zulu blackface flap: liberal guilt, clueless outsiders

March 10, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Does Ann Tuennerman have something to atone for?

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