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Author: C.W. Cannon

Trump and the GOP hate New Orleans — let’s hate ’em back

November 28, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Forget 'reaching out.' It's time to acquaint Trump's America with 'New Orleans values.'

Whole-house rentals got you down? Get hip to ‘creative disruption’!

October 30, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Maybe an absentee landlord will let me rent my former home on weekdays.

Something in common? Trump, Jackson Square, and ‘The Walking Dead’

October 16, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Giving the finger to social and political elites.

GOP vows to ‘take America back’ — but race tension, cop killings suggest we’re already there

July 19, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Why and when the Party of Lincoln stopped struggling to right the wrongs of racism.

Trumpistas, Brexitistas and hipsters: shared anxiety about class identity

July 8, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Our skill parsing gender and racial bigotry has blinded us to a deeper and equally destructive bias.

Old Hickory axed from $20 bill; so is it time to rename Jackson Square?

May 2, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Harriet Tubman is a fine choice for the $20 bill, but don't lump Jackson with the Confederates.

New Orleans is the prime ingredient in Beyoncé’s viral video ‘hot sauce’

February 19, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
Her viral video is rife with mythic images of the city, some nuanced, some merely cheap shots.

Politically incorrect? You bet! But let’s not mince words about terrorism’s U.S. kin

December 18, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
On closer inspection, radical Islam has more than a little in common with our homegrown brand of right-wing fundamentalism.

Bidding adieu to the Vieux Carré as we once knew and loved it

November 5, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Rich retirees from Dallas now enjoy the sanitized ambience of a neighborhood New Orleanians used to live in.

Old problems persist, but it’s absurd to deny improvements since Katrina

August 28, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
The disaster narrative that national observers are habituated to look for has blinded them to a lot of what’s going on in our schools ...

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