New Orleans Around Christmas the Washington Post broke an important story with a Louisiana footprint, but a national shadow. The Post reporter went through some records on more than 200 police offices that had been discharged from the notorious, federally supervised New Orleans Police Department as part of their cleanup in recent years. They found …
Month: January 2018
Time’s Up?
New Orleans The #MeToo moment may be moving, step by step, in a direction that confronts more than just bad actors and begins to look at the reform of the entire system of sexual harassment, which is simply a manifestation of discrimination, if not outright misogyny. This is good news, even if the debate is …
The Price of Protests
New Orleans The world is a dangerous place. War and the rumors of war fill the daily papers even in these days of our presumed advanced and enlightened civilization Ironically, the Age of Trump is such that some Americans are being warned not to think this is the beginning of the end times. Huh? This …