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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
December 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
Steve Scalise's David Duke Scandal Says More About Republicans Than the Party Will Ever Admit
December 30, 2014
Danny Vinik
Steve Scalise Made Compromises to Get Elected, Like Every Politician Does. Should He Lose His Seat Over Them?
October 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
It Won't Be Obama's Fault When the Democrats Lose the Senate
October 1, 2014
Nathaniel Rich
Louisiana Has a Wild Plan to Save Itself from Global Warming
Too bad the state is being destroyed from within
April 9, 2014
Jason Zengerle
The "Kissing Congressman" Is America's First Caught-on-Tape Political Sex Scandal
Which might be why it seems so dull
February 24, 2014
Danny Vinik
Bobby Jindal Says Obama Created a "Minimum Wage Economy." That Makes No Sense Whatsoever.
July 8, 2013
Marin Cogan
Whatever Happened to Bobby Jindal?
The feud that helped knock the shine off a Republican golden boy
December 18, 2012
Amy Sullivan
The GOP Better Listen to Bobby Jindal on Birth Control
December 10, 2012
Robert Puentes
Sandy Recovery: The Case for Disaster Bonds

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