The easiest story to tell about Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race is that it is already over. The numbers certainly point in that direction. Julia Letlow enters the general election as the favorite, and there are plenty of reasons why. Louisiana has become one of the Republican Party’s strongest states, President Donald Trump carried Louisiana by […]
Walk past a vacant lot in New Orleans, and you might see more than weeds. You might spot rows of okra or collards, a child hauling a watering can, or a neighbor tending to a compost pile. In neighborhoods long overlooked by development and city services, residents are turning empty land into something vital: nourishment. […]
Louisiana’s economy has always had a complicated relationship with tariffs. From the booming sugar plantations of the 1800s, shaped in part by sugar tariffs, to today’s steel and soybean industries navigating global trade wars, protective tariffs have shaped the state’s fortunes—for better or worse. As Donald Trump’s 2025 “Liberation Day” tariffs roll out nationwide, it’s […]
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