An awful lot of people watched the searing Friday video of two sexual assault survivors confronting U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake on an elevator moments after the Arizona Republican announced he’d vote to send Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination fro…

Here’s one thing that I keep coming back to after bearing witness to Thursday’s all-day Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

Although she was interviewed by an experienced prosecutor Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when the two were teens, wasn’t on trial before the Senate Judici…

What I remember about October 11, 1991 was that the world stopped. Mine did, anyway.

The first time he questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy asked the 53-year-old appeals court judge about his time at an all-boys Washington, DC area prep school. And as is his wont, Kennedy played it for laughs.

Former Gov. Bobby Jindal has never minced words about Medicaid, particularly the largely federally funded expansion that he adamantly refused to accept on behalf of Louisiana’s working poor. Here a few of those words:

A decade ago, recently elected Gov. Bobby Jindal and a bunch of new legislators who made up the first post-term limits class were still finding their legs. Money was rolling in to state coffers, thanks to recovery spending from monster hurricanes …

When the U.S. Supreme Court OK'd sports betting across the land earlier this year, one outcome was already in the cards: Just as with the establishment of casino gambling itself, Louisiana would lose out to nearby Mississippi.

Earlier this month, I wrote a column about the phrase “shoo-shoo,” which is sometimes used in these parts to describe a tropical threat that fails to materialize. Some readers had never heard the phrase, while others said they had known it since t…

New Orleans’ new airport terminal, once it finally opens, will be a grand new gateway to the region. It could also serve as a symbol, not just of the city’s modern, outwardly-focused ambitions but also its prosaic, perennial challenges.

Being mayor of a major city such as New Orleans is a big, big job, and realistically speaking, no one person can do it all.

One of many unproductive dynamics during and after Hurricane Katrina was the toxic relationship between FEMA director Michael Brown and his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Speaking at a Tuesday morning briefing hosted by the Bureau of Governmental Research, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell answered a question over the long-shuttered Municipal Auditorium with what sounded like a pretty enthusiastic pitch for relocat…

The Regional Transit Authority hasn’t always lived up to its name.

Some prominent Louisiana Republicans think they have a winning strategy for the 2019 governor’s election: Make the contest a referendum on Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.

Watching the congressional hearings into the Hurricane Katrina response could be infuriating. Some members didn’t bother to do their homework and get good information. Some seemed intent on simply finding someone to blame.

Gov. John Bel Edwards is practically taunting Attorney General Jeff Landry these days, arguing to anyone who’ll listen that a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act’s ban on discrimination against people with pre-existing heal…

Gov. John Bel Edwards still doesn’t know who his main opponent will be next year. But he’s fundraising as if he does.

Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn did the right thing Wednesday, even if he did it for the wrong reasons.

As Americans were busy this week poring over the busy tropical weather forecast maps, word got out that Department of Homeland Security had diverted $10 million from FEMA’s budget to provide more “detention beds” for people arrested as part of the…

Must be nice to be state treasurer. You get to put out press releases when the credit rating agencies smile upon the state, but avoid the unpleasantness of creating the conditions to make that happen.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has spent much of his first term playing defense, particularly when it comes to state spending. The exhausting, all-consuming struggle between the Democratic administration and Republican-led state House ended with most of Ed…

Long before he left the Louisiana Legislature for Congress, Steve Scalise developed a reputation as a team player. It’s one reason he stayed in Baton Rouge as long as he did.

When politicians reach for pop-culture references, they’re generally attempting to appear hip, cool, now.

We know what Tropical Storm Gordon wasn’t, at least around Louisiana.

There’s been lots of chatter, some of it from me, about how the new New Orleans City Council is maneuvering to assert its own power and independence from the mayor who was elected, from council ranks, on the same ballot.

Gordon, it turned out, wasn’t the first big test of New Orleans’ new mayor, LaToya Cantrell, or of much newer Sewerage & Water Board leader Ghassan Korban, who showed up for his first day of work just as the tropical storm was heading toward t…

Ghassan Korban clocked in to his new job at the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans on Monday, as long scheduled. By the end of the day, Louisiana was under a state of emergency, with a tropical storm or perhaps even a hurricane headed in th…

Even a year out from the last Louisiana governor race, we knew what the big issues would be. The state’s dire budget situation stood above everything else, and Medicaid expansion topped the list of other burning causes.

Hey, New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board customers: That bill that was so far off that you got a refund? Turns out it may be wrong, too.

When you cover politics in a place other than Washington, D.C. for a long time, you’re bound to cross paths with national figures when they pass through. So it was with me and the late Arizona senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain.