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Former juvenile delinquent: There but for the grace of God—and white skin …

What if the teenager shot in a Marigny resident’s driveway were white?

How about requiring that federal prosecutors be drawn from outside the district where they will serve — and then choosing them by lottery?

New Orleanians have reason to be skeptical of ProsperityNOLA, but this is an unusually bad time to be cynical.

Was Trayvon Martin’s killing a lynching? In one way, it’s worse: It was legal.

The diversions of the past are not the diversions of the future.

Omaha has done pretty well after its stockyards were shut down. New Orleans has struggled to diversify its economy beyond tourism.

Research shows that we won’t be able to rebuild the coast the same way it was created, with sediment flowing down the river.

Multi-generational white Southerners are not any more racist than racists in Colorado, New Jersey, or the new Florida of George Zimmerman.

Small and modest projects always exceed expectations while big ones never fulfill theirs.

The young man accused of shooting second-liners on Mother’s Day “is all our young men. He’s us.”