New Orleans For tenant activists and organizers around the country and the world, rent control, real rent control, often seems like gold at the end of the rainbow, almost a mirage, certainly unattainable, and perhaps not worth the struggle. New York City has long been a beacon for tenants trying to win such protections, …
Mexican Tariffs Create an Alternate Reality
New Orleans Texas is a red state with a headache. The cities are becoming bluer and bluer, and a huge number of the F150 pickup driving, cowboy boot wearing folks are Latinos. A visit to Houston might be educational for the president. For example, President Trump doesn’t understand that the border stretches all the …
Rules and Standards need Umpires
Houston Sometimes we find surprising light in dark corners. At least, that’s how I felt reading a kind of weird conversation between two, seemingly random, people as an op-ed in the New York Times. It turned out this was a kind of bizarre experiment of sorts from one of their opinion writers, Charlie Warzel, and …