Jimmie Duncan is on death row in Louisiana based on fraudulent science—but that might not matter if the state’s governorship flips this fall.

It’s an ironic twist in a year when Americans rallied to democracy’s defense.

A slew of ballot initiatives are allowing millions of Americans the chance to overhaul how their elections are run.

Hurricane Ida, wildfire evacuations, and Orlando’s oxygen shortage all show that we need policy solutions to address multiple crises at once.

The same fossil fuel industry whose emissions helped intensify the storm also modified the Louisiana coastline to make it more vulnerable to flooding.

Hurricane season is getting longer. Building higher sea walls won’t save us.

Like Katrina before it, Hurricane Laura has exposed disturbing inequalities—and the rest of the nation’s fundamental indifference.

From California wildfires to Gulf Coast hurricanes, the disaster capitalists are always ready to make a killing.

A critical vote in Baton Rouge this weekend is the latest victory for a nationwide campaign to make schools whiter.

The dual threat of late-season river flooding and early-season hurricanes is a sign of things to come for our warming world.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh's first chance to roll back abortion rights almost certainly won't be a challenge to Roe v. Wade.

The congressman's controversial video from Auschwitz is a reminder that Trump is merely the figurehead of an increasingly extreme Republican Party.

The group Take ‘Em Down NOLA has an ambitious goal—to rid the city of all its tributes to slavery’s defenders.

If Campbell can win a run-off for Louisiana’s Senate seat, the Democrats will be that much closer to stopping Donald Trump.

The Louisiana governor made prayer his first priority after the Lafayette shooting. That’s not nearly enough.