No one can say the last two weeks in New Orleans have been uneventful. The Saints broke the team’s Super Bowl drought and their fans beat the NFL in a battle over who owns “Who Dat.”  Watergate Junior made national headlines out of the security, or lack thereof, at Hale Boggs Federal Building and Krewe […]

As Haiti struggles to pull itself together, French finance minister Christine Lagarde is pushing to expedite a cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in Haitian government debt. Haitian historian Alex von Tunzelmann said, “For all of the 19th century and most of the 20th century, Haiti was unable to develop normally” because of crushing debt. […]