Behind the crackle of guns in a violent city: a search for peace, a brush with death
"I woke up in a jumble of tubes and stapled flesh."
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire. This category features thought-provoking essays and commentary from writers, community members, and photographers offering insight into the issues, ideas, and experiences that shape New Orleans and beyond.
Warning: Regulating e-cigs as smoked tobacco may be hazardous to health
A classic case of special-interest lobbying on behalf of giant corporations.
With a bigot like Bannon at Trump’s side, ‘never again’ is happening right now
Why are our own Jewish organizations acquiescing to leadership this repulsive?
Pondering ‘our suicide place’ — solitary confinement in Louisiana
What looked like rice was maggots. Part of her body was actually rotting way.
Trump and the GOP hate New Orleans — let’s hate ’em back
Forget 'reaching out.' It's time to acquaint Trump's America with 'New Orleans values.'
Is it time to junk identity politics? Or did Trump just play the same game more cleverly?
A scholar says it's time to move on. A TV producer does a powerfully slow burn.
Opportunities for ‘lifers’ — but little programming for inmates nearing release
Angola rodeo's crafts fair points up an absurdity in Louisiana's penal system.
The Donald Trump you saw campaigning for the past year really didn’t get elected
Relax. Cheer up. It didn’t really happen. America — today’s America — would never elect an overt racist, a xenophobe and a misogynist as president.
“The nutria did it!” and four other reasons lawmakers are letting Big Oil off the hook
Committee members attack the governor, rather than the problem.
Whole-house rentals got you down? Get hip to ‘creative disruption’!
Maybe an absentee landlord will let me rent my former home on weekdays.
