New Orleans Inflation is starting to edge forward in the United States. For the White House, that will mean finger pointing and bully pulpit time once again, as Trump tries to divert attention away from his on-again-off-again tariff tantrums. In some fever dream, he thinks he can blame it on the head of …
Month: July 2025
The Long Shadow of Redlining Continues
New Orleans Redlining continues to raise its ugly head in the legacy of broken urban neighborhoods in cities across the United States, despite having been mitigated in one way or another over the last fifty years. Classically, redlining was a de facto classification by the government, insurers, and political actors that mapped different …
Looking at the Cutbacks from the Food Banks Up
New Orleans I caught up with the Sunday New York Times late in the day. I flipped through the opinion section quickly, same ol’, same ‘ol, it seemed, smoke signals from distant mountains, largely unseen. I got to the end and noticed a piece by Tracy Kidder, “America is Rewriting the Social Contract.” …