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New Iberia, La. For an illustration of how cruel the country’s latest wave of nativism has grown, look to Louisiana. Here, a little-noticed new state law has effectively made it illegal for thousands of refugees to get married. It all started last year. Having lost the fight over gay marriage, the state’s religious right decided…
Days of rain swallowed thousands of roads and buildings in water throughout Louisiana. At least 11 people were killed and more than 10,000 displaced as the ‘unprecedented’ floodwaters rose. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes…
If you don’t live in or around Louisiana, you may not know that. And it’s not your fault. Cable news has mostly ignored it. Sure, there’s been coverage, but not as much you’d expect given the scale of the suffering. As Rod Dreher noted on his blog, a screenshot of CNN’s home page over the…
Updated | Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America First” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed to see Donald Trump…
While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks,…
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school’s athletic program were killed during a shootout early Sunday outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex, police and university officials said. Police arrested one of two men suspected in the shooting. Ernest Bernard…
FILED UNDER: U.S., Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans FOLLOW NEWSWEEK Full site feed The worst of Katrina was an act of man, not an act of God. I heard something like that from every local I encountered in New Orleans earlier this year. No matter their age, race or religion, the people of this city pretty much agree that…
Katrina bus tours go all over New Orleans, but it’s illegal for them to go into the Lower 9th Ward, the area that’s been the slowest to rebuild. This week we go around talking to residents there about what matters the most to them (and what doesn’t) ten years after the hurricane. The episode we…
‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him. It was the summer of 2005, less than two weeks after the city’s flood-protection system failed to keep out the storm surge created…
If the online footprint of the Lafayette shooter identified by police as John Russell Houser, who killed two and injured nine others during a Thursday night showing of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck before then killing himself, is any indication, Obama has really outdone himself in the false flag department this time. What did Houser hate? Pretty much…