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Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Warning: Regulating e-cigs as smoked tobacco may be hazardous to health

A classic case of special-interest lobbying on behalf of giant corporations.
by Chris Flowers December 16, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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?
by Rachel Lee and Hannah Wolfman-Arent December 9, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Pondering ‘our suicide place’ — solitary confinement in Louisiana

What looked like rice was maggots. Part of her body was actually rotting way.
by The Rev. William Barnwell December 5, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.'
by C.W. Cannon November 28, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Jed Horne November 21, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Opportunities for ‘lifers’ — but little programming for inmates nearing release

Angola rodeo's crafts fair points up an absurdity in Louisiana's penal system.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 14, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Jed Horne November 9, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

“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.
by Anne Rolfes November 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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

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

Media focus on violent protests ignores the notably peaceful ones

Pondering the recent Take 'Em Down NOLA march to Jackson Square
by The Rev. William Barnwell October 27, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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