New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina anniversary: How the free market killed New Orleans
August 29, 2025Knowing a momentous storm was heading for the city, what did officials do? They played the free market. Everyone was expected to devise their own way out.
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Voters back pro-worker and abortion rights measures across the country
November 8, 2024Trump may have been a vessel for their anger but many still voted for progressive ballot initiatives.
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Race relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Opera (NOO) promoted its production of Blue as “the southern premiere of the most talked-about new American opera.” I’d been meaning to get back to the Crescent City to see it...
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Repeating racist fears of lawlessness in New Orleans after Ida
September 2, 2021The focus on looting seems both shortsighted and insignificant in the face of risks of illness and death.
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New Orleans trash workers’ forced strike enters week 10
July 23, 2020“We don't have Metro's millions but we have our community behind us and most importantly: The truth.”
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