Matt Lewis: Hot take: ICE agents shouldn’t wear masks
(Column by Matt K. Lewis, June 25) “Who was that masked man?” If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember that line from “The Lone Ranger” — a weekly morality […]
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Supreme Court should decide marshland lawsuit is all wet
(June 21) Louisiana parishes shouldn’t count on seeing money from lawsuits against oil companies any time soon. Indeed, they may never see the money — and they may not deserve it. […]
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From Father’s Day: Political lessons from my dad
(A version of this ran June 15) On this Father’s Day, please permit a look at some political lessons I learned from my father. Haywood H. Hillyer III, who died 15 […]
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LA congressional delegation should restore river study
(A version of this ran as an official Advocate/Times-Picayune editorial on June 15) Perhaps no state in the union faces as many and varied water-related issues as Louisiana does, and now its […]
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Groups promoting truly civil society deserve support
(June 19) Where, pray tell, is common ground? Almost everybody agrees that American politics, which always have been rambunctious, have devolved into such toxicity that civil conversations appear impossible. Every reasonable person […]
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Rep. Julia Letlow should welcome LSU presidency
(June 11) If U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow truly is in the running to be the new president or chancellor of LSU or the LSU system, as is rumored, then she really […]
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Ivermectin over the counter? Deadly dumb!
(June 4, 2025) The Louisiana state Senate today has one last chance to stop what is surely the single worst bill of this entire legislative session and, frankly, one of […]
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Senate must examine levee board leadership
(June 8) The Louisiana State Senate should not just rubber-stamp the appointment of Roy Carubba, the acting president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, to serve a full term […]
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Deroy Murdock: How to roll back spending
(Column by Deroy Murdock, June 6) Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck […]
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George Will: Trump and Co. refuse to understand Putin’s evil
(Column by George Will, June 6) Recently, 20,000 people were evacuated from the center of the German city of Cologne because of a timely reminder from the past: three unexploded bombs […]
