New Orleans There are some stories from the last election that should speak more to our future than any nostalgia for the past. One big story is from Las Vegas, and it’s not a story that should stay there, but one that should travel everywhere, although it may be too late. In the butt whipping …
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, …