Huey Long’s rise to power began with his election to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He ran a surprisingly strong race for the gubernatorial nomination in 1924 when only thirty years old, but ...

Some of the problems, however, that motivate populists aren’t problems at all, and populist anger is rooted in something else ...

That same year saw a revival of the Long machine. Twenty-nine year old Russell Long, Huey’s son and Earl’s nephew, became a candidate in a special election for the United States Senate to fill the ...

The morning of July 16, 2022, four first responders with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office air support unit climbed aboard what lawsuits describe as a death trap. The three crew members who ...

Last week, on election day, snow sifted over startled ... the last office-holding henchman of the late Huey (“Lion in the Street”) Long. Handsome, athletic “Chep” Morrison, who moves ...

A guest post by Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry. A recent opinion piece in The Hayride, ironically titled “The ...

Donald Trump returned to power as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, saying in his second inaugural address ...

President Donald Trump focused his ire and retaliation on one person in the very first minutes of his presidency, even before ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...

Though erased from the popular imagination, the South was once home to a robust progressive politics, embodied in persons like Alabama governor Big Jim Folsom and the controversial populist Louisiana ...

New video from DOTD shows thick ice on the Huey P Long Bridge. Crews are urging people to stay off the roads due to the ice. JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Snow has fallen across Southeast Louisiana ...