Sitemap - 2025 - Something Like the Truth: By Robert Mann

2025 was the year Sen. Bill Cassidy sold what was left of his soul

Can Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry serve as Trump’s “special envoy to Greenland”?

These are a few of my favorite charts and graphs

Abandoning trans people isn’t just morally wrong; it’s bad politics

My political New Year's Resolutions for 2026

LSU paid 'the Landry tax' to Lane Kiffin

A Mountain of Dirty Laundry, Discrimination, and Dysfunction

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home

Danger ahead

Clown Car University?

Rousse Ruse?

LSU needs a governor who cheerleads not coaches

Charlie Kirk University?

No Kings was awesome, but how can we keep the momentum alive?

The GOP: Tolerance for me, prison for thee

A GOP dummymander?

Backstabber Gets Backing!

Why is the top aide to the GOP Baton Rouge mayor helping pick the new LSU president?

Don’t Militarize Louisiana’s Streets

Democrats Turn Trump’s Own Playbook Against Fox News

The Trump/GOP Medicaid cuts are real and they are draconian

Stick a fork in Sen. Bill Cassidy

When Louisiana lived under martial law

The re-whitening of LSU

Is this when Sen. Bill Cassidy finally finds his courage?

Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later (Part 3)

Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later (Part 2)

As RFK Jr. prepares to ban all COVID vaccines, it's time for Sen. Bill Cassidy to intervene

Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later (Part 1)

Job Announcement: President, Louisiana State University

Closing Time?

An open letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy

'Jesus didn’t heal people from a skybox'

Immune

Storm clouds loom over Louisiana's future

A six-month Louisiana politics check-up

Bill Cassidy Picked a Side. It Wasn’t Ours.

It's no time to give up

Praying for apocalypse

Politics by tantrum

Sen. Bill Cassidy's deadly gamble

Legalized bribery

No longer a shining city on a hill

Sen. John Bel Edwards?

The Pied Piper of Pathogens — and the senator who played along

Friends, family, neighbors -- or political enemies?

Jeff Landry's private school voucher plan is a budget disaster in the making

How can Sen. Bill Cassidy win reelection?

What Would You Have Done in 1930s Germany?

Streamlining death

Congressional impotence

Firing federal workers won't reduce the deficit

A resistance is born

"The Art of Surrender," by Sen. Bill Cassidy

A proper trouncing

Four flawed constitutional amendments, one hard pass

Stupid and evil

What can we do?

The Louisiana Democratic Party chair responds

The Louisiana Democratic Party needs new leadership

The Louisiana constitutional amendments: are we for 'em or against 'em?

AWOL Democratic leaders

The duping of Bill Cassidy

Masters of the Art of Strongly Worded Letter

Prof. Ken Levy’s battle is ours, too

Chaos, not reform

Courage is contagious

America has joined the Axis of Evil

Like water on rock

Louisiana is slouching toward vouchers, again

Poor state, even poorer leadership

I Belonged in Louisiana

Who thinks kneecapping the East Baton Rouge Parish Library is a great idea?

A killing machine fueled by racism

The real profanity at LSU? It's not the salty language of a law professor

Keep those calls and letters coming

Bill Cassidy trades away his self-respect

In trying to run LSU, Jeff Landry is repeating Huey Long's mistakes

Jeff Landry is ruining LSU’s reputation, and its leaders are helping him do it

A simple way to fight poverty: Increase the hourly minimum wage

Speaking truth to power

Turning human misery into big money

Why is MAGA so eager to abandon democracy?

Trump’s grotesque disaster politics

Obama was nice to Trump. Shouldn't we be outraged?

How would invading Panama make eggs any cheaper?

Sen. John Kennedy's shameful abuse of the victims of NOLA's terrorist attack

A Prayer in Solidarity with Victims of Violence