To parishioners who fought back, the archdiocese seemed to be engaged in a power grab.
Category: Opinion
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Worth remembering: When NOPD drew on community culture to fight crime
Cops once backed an array of community programs to build trust.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Katrina remembered: Learning to live in the shadow of environmental doom
Do we have what it will take for New Orleans to survive the next Big One?
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Rebuttal: Cop killings are a legacy of criminalizing people for being black
Black Lives Matter advocates push back against the race and crime analysis in a recent Lens column.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Black Lives Matter — including the 99.7% of the killings that aren’t by cops
It’s time to face reality: black killers are chiefly responsible for the epidemic of black homicides.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
An ex-offender’s bold experiment: turning trashed lives into treasure
A thrift-store provides hope and a first step back into the free world for the formerly incarcerated.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Horrific loss turns single mother of four into fervent gun-control advocate
She never thought it could happen to her.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
GOP vows to ‘take America back’ — but race tension, cop killings suggest we’re already there
Why and when the Party of Lincoln stopped struggling to right the wrongs of racism.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
The fire this time: What will history say about a nation so prone to violence?
We may be near a turning point, but will it be a push back against hatred or a deeper dive into the abyss?
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Trumpistas, Brexitistas and hipsters: shared anxiety about class identity
Our skill parsing gender and racial bigotry has blinded us to a deeper and equally destructive bias.