at its helm is asali, who is leading a massive project to revitalize this 25-block stretch.erica, also in europe, they're tearing down these monsters from the 1960s and 1970s. any discussion about it here in new orleans? well, actually, that was kind of the big sexy discussion around our work, but when we talk to residents about this over the course of a couple of years, right, thousands of residents, focus groups, what we learned is that about 50% say that it's the worst thing that ever happened to our community and it should absolutely come down. and another 50% said it's been here our whole life, this is where we have our second lines, the bands sound really good under here. and what we know is that when these things come down, we get displaced, right? so that was around generational lines pretty much. people remembered what it was like, some didn't, but 100% said: "we want economic opportunities, we want housing affordability, we want cultural preservation, we want environmental sustainability and transportation choice and access." so we decided to work on what 100% of p

you don't judge the people who tell you i adore thomas jefferson and i don't care what he did with asali hemings. you maintain a distance from them and then you leave the rescene and give us context for what was going on. i thinkk there a lot of journalists to stay nature want who want to dive in aaron judge. what do think it is about you that makes you want to observe and not reserve judgment? your point there's a portion of this book in which i do a daily show kind of thing and clearly make them look. and for me that's not a natural part of my ethos and i really, really wanted to understand why they believe some the things that they believed. so many things that run so profoundly counter to the evidence at hand. i think about the conversation i had with a guy named jeff a member of the sons of the confederate handlebar mustache round and confederate paraphernalia and we were in a conversation he told me about how when he was a a boy his fatr would take them to the cemetery to his grandfather would go to the cemetery and they'd sing the old anthem and watch the deer come out of the fore