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August 31, 2021
Melody Schreiber
Welcome to the Climate-Covid Convergence
Hurricane Ida, wildfire evacuations, and Orlando’s oxygen shortage all show that we need policy solutions to address multiple crises at once.
August 30, 2021
Jake Bittle
Hurricane Ida Is a Manmade Disaster
The same fossil fuel industry whose emissions helped intensify the storm also modified the Louisiana coastline to make it more vulnerable to flooding.
March 8, 2021
Nick Martin
The Great Blind Spot in Hurricane Preparedness
Hurricane season is getting longer. Building higher sea walls won’t save us.
September 1, 2020
Michael Patrick Welch
Lake Charles Was Destroyed by Hurricane Laura. America Has Already Moved On.
Like Katrina before it, Hurricane Laura has exposed disturbing inequalities—and the rest of the nation’s fundamental indifference.
August 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Who Will Get Rich Off of Hurricane Laura?
From California wildfires to Gulf Coast hurricanes, the disaster capitalists are always ready to make a killing.
October 15, 2019
Sophie Kasakove
The School Secession Movement Is Growing. That’s Bad News for Integration.
A critical vote in Baton Rouge this weekend is the latest victory for a nationwide campaign to make schools whiter.
July 10, 2019
Eric Holthaus
New Orleans Braces for a One-Two Weather Punch
The dual threat of late-season river flooding and early-season hurricanes is a sign of things to come for our warming world.
October 10, 2018
Matt Ford
The Abortion Case Likely Headed for the Supreme Court
Justice Brett Kavanaugh's first chance to roll back abortion rights almost certainly won't be a challenge to Roe v. Wade.
July 6, 2017
Paul Blest
Clay Higgins and the Rise of Trumpism in the GOP
The congressman's controversial video from Auschwitz is a reminder that Trump is merely the figurehead of an increasingly extreme Republican Party.
June 22, 2017
Clio Chang
Republicans are lying about Medicaid.
May 18, 2017
Clint Smith
The Young Black Activists Targeting New Orleans’s Confederate Monuments
The group Take ‘Em Down NOLA has an ambitious goal—to rid the city of all its tributes to slavery’s defenders.
November 25, 2016
Matt Sledge
Foster Campbell Is the Last Democrat Left Fighting
If Campbell can win a run-off for Louisiana’s Senate seat, the Democrats will be that much closer to stopping Donald Trump.
August 10, 2016
David Sarasohn
The Republican War on Public Universities
August 4, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The “Blue Lives Matter” movement just gained its first victory in a Louisiana hate crime bill.
February 12, 2016
Adam Peck
How one Democrat is using SEC football to raise taxes.
December 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Death-by-assault rates are highest in the South and especially high in Louisiana.
July 26, 2015
Jamil Smith
Bobby Jindal’s Opiate for the Masses
The Louisiana governor made prayer his first priority after the Lafayette shooting. That’s not nearly enough.
July 24, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Bobby Jindal Enabled Louisiana's Gun Violence Problem
July 24, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Right-Wingers' Solution to Movie Theater Shootings: More Guns
February 10, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Oil Workers Are Striking Because They're Underpaid and Overworked—and It's Killing Them
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