Katrina remembered: Learning to live in the shadow of environmental doom
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Horrific loss turns single mother of four into fervent gun-control advocate
She never thought it could happen to her.
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.
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?
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.
Trump with tea and crumpets: What Brexit says about England — and America
At the heart of the fiasco called Brexit was a dark force all too familiar over here: racism
The Gusman mess: Maybe it’s time to reconsider how we pick our sheriffs
Is running a jail all that different from the responsibilities that come with other important city jobs?
