New Orleans I was in Triana, Albania, riding shotgun, talking pleasantly in the car as we drove to a meeting, and I swear I couldn’t help myself from channeling my father, a million others, and, frankly, myself, when I snapped at the driver, “stop lugging the engine!” I was self-aware enough to explain what lugging …
Category: Ideas and Issues
My Mother Was a Live Wire
New Orleans My mother was a live wire. She could light up a room like a glowing bulb, but if you didn’t make the connection right, she could singe your fingers. One minute she had all the charm, grace, and manners of the old south, and the next minute, if you weren’t on your toes, …
Big Hope for Small Donors
New Orleans Money in politics, boo! For years under the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision money has flooded into politics like water, as the superrich, corporations, and others try to buy their way through an ostensibly democratic system. Billionaires and bigtime millionaires, whether Trump or Daddy Starbucks or Bloomberg on the national level or …