New Orleans Watching Kris Kobach, the uber-controversial Kansas Secretary of State who has been a one-man wrecking ban of voters rights, ballot access, and the human and legal rights of immigrants, walking hand in hand with President-elect Trump and giving him advice on how to set up a Muslim registry was another in a long …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Fake News and a Field Guide to Lies
New Orleans You have to love headline news about fake news. Usually fake news is in the stories, not the headlines. We all have to appreciate the irony contained in articles in almost any newspaper, especially opinion pieces, about fake news when there is no disclosure of inherent biases contained in any of them. Nonetheless, it …
What’s a Woman to Do?
New Orleans The ascent of Trump may be proving that the personal is not the political, but it also seems to be establishing to a frightening degree that the political is very, very personal. I read a lengthy and poignant story in Harper’s in the wake of the election. It was centered in Rapid City, …