HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
If Jeff Thompson can capitalize on endorsements from Republican heavyweights like House Minority Leader John Boehner and clinch his party's nomination...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.
Erik Ose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
To fully understand recent events, it's important to remember a tragedy that happened thirty-five years ago, and how much things have changed for gays and lesbians since then.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living
Image: Outrunning the Fear Blood coagulated between the eyes of the water moccasin like the Hindu bindi as its flaccid five-foot length dangled fr...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is facing a potential recall, after he declined to veto state legislators doubling their salaries.
Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Jindal has joined the GOP in its bold march backwards towards the days of when Medieval concepts such as Geocentrism, phlogistan and the "Four Humors" held sway.
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
While the "full impact" of Katrina is not quantifiable, the more we know about the circumstances of individual deaths, the better prepared we will be to prevent similar disasters in the future.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
It is easy to blame nature, but what or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed the city of New Orleans to be ruined?
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
If Republicans lose in deeply Republican districts as they did last night, they can literally lose anywhere. The whole electoral map can be redrawn.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living
Water stalks southern Louisiana like a panther seeking its prey. Hurricane Katrina was the kill, but the water never relents -- always moving, sometimes retreating, forever flowing.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.25.2008 | Entertainment
It's going to be hard to beat this in the Top Chef Quickfire Challenge. Paul Prudhomme, the New Orleans chef who made blackened redfish a staple of...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Senator David Vitter still begs to differ that racism comes into play when it comes to the lack of public housing.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
Mulligan -- (noun) A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. This is ...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home
As of Saturday morning, Hillary Clinton still had a lead in pledged delegates. Within 2 days, Obama won new contests and was further boosted by a 13-0...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
I'm going to start off with a quick piece of advice for both Democratic campaigns (or perhaps for Howard Dean) -- spend the next few weeks taping ever...
Arkansas Watch | Posted 01.22.2008 | Home
Don't expect to hear much about it from the corporate media, but Louisiana today begins the process that will determine who 27 of it's 47 Republican d...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 01.20.2008 | Business
IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA — Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes an...
MarketWatch | Russ Britt | Posted 11.25.2007 | Business
Call it "the other LA." In addition to sharing the same abbreviation as the film industry's capital, the state of Louisiana is capturing more of the ...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics
Only a narrow sliver of six or seven nearly exclusively Western and Midwestern states that can really be counted on to be competitive in 2008.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Brad Pitt pledged $5 million toward rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans at the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday afternoon.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
Overt and very stark racial disparities are a matter of daily occurrence when it comes to law enforcement, the judicial process, and the prison system.
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green