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Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

OK, we’re becoming a resilient city — but what does ‘resilience’ really mean?

I have a concern that we are all a bit confused by this overworked word.
by Linda Usdin January 5, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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

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

Letter from Paris, with love and sorrow: Why I came to the Climate Conference

We are nearing a tipping point — if we haven't already passed the point of no return.
by Jonathan Henderson December 9, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

‘Domestic terrorism’ here in New Orleans? Really?

The mass shootings at Bunny Friend Park may not be jihadism, but that doesn't make them less than deeply troubling.
by Jed Horne December 3, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

School choice since Katrina: the promises made, the challenges ahead

New Orleans emerges as the nation's boldest experiment in school innovation.
by Folwell Dunbar November 27, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Nostalgia undermines struggle to make so-so schools truly excellent

What the older generation remembers from their own school days is increasingly irrelevant to a changing world.
by Folwell Dunbar November 20, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

A judge’s lie obscures a deeper truth about the New Orleans region

The shifting balance between suburbs and the city provides an opportunity for regional thinking.
by Jed Horne November 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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

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

Jindal and the Core: Louisiana snubs the Manchurian Candidate

When it comes to the Common Core, it can be hard to tell right-wingers from lefties.
by Jed Horne October 30, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Next governor must make evacuation planning the No. 1 coastal priority

The levees were reconstructed to shore up insurable property values, not to eliminate the threat to human life.
by Bob Jacobsen October 21, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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