All Episodes
Behind The Lens — 100 episodes
Behind The Lens: Thrust and Power — SpaceX’s $100 Billion spaceport proposal (audio)
Behind The Lens: “As Meta rolls into Louisiana with a massive data center … (This is Part 2 of 2 audio discussions)
Behind The Lens: “As Meta rolls into Louisiana with a massive data center … (This is Part 1 of 2 audio discussions)
Behind The Lens: Sunrise Foods sprinkler system raises fire code concerns in Lower 9th Ward (audio)
Behind The Lens: SNAP cuts could threaten free school meals; New Orleans marks Black Education History Week (audio)
Behind The Lens: Color or community? Supreme Court ruling reshapes Louisiana’s congressional map (audio)
Behind The Lens Podcast: Contempt of court (audio)
Behind The Lens Podcast: Clean slate and school bells (audio)
Behind The Lens: Why New Orleans keeps losing power in fair weather (audio)
Behind The Lens: “Where did all my people go?” (audio)
Behind The Lens: Governor’s veto and student’s arrest put government power under scrutiny (audio)
Behind The Lens: ICE detention, court access and federal intervention in Louisiana (audio)
Behind The Lens: False claims, real consequences: Why an Iberia Parish solar farm never got built (audio)
Behind The Lens: Detained despite citizenship and the debate over jury secrecy (Audio)
“Point of no return?” Part 2: Staying, adapting and defending New Orleans’ future. (Audio)
“Point of No Return?” Part 1: A Conversation About Sea Level Rise and the Future of New Orleans (AUDIO)
Behind the curtain: how Louisiana’s parole system and courts shape who goes free
Paraquat and Parkinson’s: Inside the risks in Wayne County, Mississippi
Immunity for oil & gas companies are on the horizon if HB804 becomes law in Louisiana
Consolidation or retaliation? Republican lawmakers move to eliminate the job Calvin Duncan won in a landslide election
From roots to results: Karen Gadbois, The Lens’ co-founder and former executive director, reflects on 15 years of reporting.
Double the capacity, double the bill: Meta and Entergy announce a plan to build 7 new power plants for AI data centers in LA.
The day of reckoning: The Supreme Court will soon decide if oil companies have to pay for damage to the LA coast.
Getting Squeezed: How the wars in Ukraine and Iran are affecting the pocketbooks of LA citizens
Beads Won: Politics in Mardi Gras parades
Innovative or Ill-Advised?: A NOLA addiction doctor leaves after her novel approach raises questions at her hospital
23 & 1: Solitary confinement in LA prisons is on the rise; also local churches provide shelter and power during outages using solar
A town on the brink of extinction: Modeste is facing an acute concentration of industry as a proposed new development threatens to engulf it
Emboldened: LA lawmakers ask FDA to restrict abortion meds nationally
Instability is the word of the year for one local school
An Oil Well in Reverse: Smitty’s hopes to inject liquid waste into a landfill in Jefferson Parish
Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate
“A Fundamental Reset”
Boxing Up Choice: Louisiana AG sues the FDA to halt the shipment of abortion meds. And the Leah Chase School Principal Resigns.
Protected Speech or Anti-Semitism? A university syllabus draws scrutiny.
Energy Monsters: AI data centers prompt concern about a ‘Digital Cancer Alley.’ Also, the first U.S. climate refugees have regrets
Odorless, invisible and deadly: Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to La. residents
Ep. 283: After the Smitty’s Supply explosion, concerns for Lake Pontchartrain
Episode 282: Orleans Parish Prison after the storm ‘We’re still in here’
Behind The Lens episode 281 part II: ‘Completely inadequate’
Behind The Lens episode 281 part I: ‘Completely inadequate’
Behind The Lens episode 281: ‘Crumbling’
Behind The Lens episode 280: ‘The licensing of Essence’
Behind the Lens episode 279: ‘Incompetent or lying’
Behind The Lens episode 278: ‘Failed to file’
Behind The Lens episode 277: ‘Hotter, hotter and hotter’
Behind The Lens episode 276: ‘Breathing poison air’
Behind The Lens episode 275: ‘Snake hips’
Behind The Lens episode 274: ‘Human decency’
Behind The Lens episode 273: ‘Caught in the lurch’
Behind The Lens episode 272: ‘Growing threat’
Behind The Lens episode 271: ‘Death warrant’
Behind The Lens episode 270: ‘The wrong schools’
Behind the Lens episode 269: ‘They are not forgotten’
Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Part II: ‘The best spot on Fat Tuesday’
Behind The Lens episode 268: ‘Cruel and unusual’
Behind The Lens episode 267: ‘Young, Black, vibrant’
Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Part I: ‘Throw less, throw better’
Behind The Lens episode 265: ‘That’s just a payday loan’
Behind The Lens episode 264 Part II: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
Behind The Lens episode 264 Part I: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
Behind The Lens episode 263: ‘They never paid’
Behind The Lens episode 262: ‘A new generation’s fight’
Behind The Lens episode 261: ‘A moment in the year’
Behind The Lens episode 260: ‘Tough Transitions’
Behind The Lens episode 259: Opinion: ‘The education situation’
Behind The Lens episode 258: ‘Floodplains’
Behind The Lens episode 257: ‘Creating new reefs’
Behind The Lens episode 256: ‘A Tricky Endeavor’
Behind The Lens episode 255: ‘Civil rights at risk’
Behind The Lens episode 254: ‘It’s scary, dangerous’
Behind the Lens episode 253: ‘Mace with no warning’
Behind the Lens episode 252: ‘Bleeding out’
Behind the Lens episode 250: ‘Insurance Crisis’
Behind The Lens episode 249: ‘An America of enslavement’
Behind the Lens episode 248: ‘They’ve harmed our public health’
Behind the Lens episode 247: ‘Cumulative emissions’
Behind the Lens episode 246: ‘unreasonable doubt’
Behind The Lens episode 245: ‘Adults failed them’
Behind The Lens episode 244: ‘More and more extremes’
Behind The Lens episode 243: ‘The solar Motherhouse’
Behind The Lens episode 242: ‘Extreme heat and dirty water’
Behind The Lens episode 241: ‘Radical Black joy’
Behind The Lens episode 240: ‘An enduring insult’
Behind The Lens episode 239: ‘It’s unconscionable’
Behind The Lens episode 238: ‘Juvenile Jails’
Behind The Lens episode 237: ‘A union victory’
Behind The Lens episode 236: ‘An energy company deciding subject matter’
Behind the Lens episode 235: ‘One step behind Exxon’ News Update
Behind The Lens episode 234: ‘Rabble-rousing at the Big Green’
Behind The Lens episode 233: ‘A Black hamlet’
Behind The Lens “Sunshine Week” episode 232: ‘It’s so powerful to see’
Behind The Lens episode 231: ‘We cannot allow it to fail’
Behind The Lens episode 230: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the fun of Mardi Gras’
Behind The Lens episode 229: ‘Backtracking on promises’
Behind The Lens episode 228: ‘The river knows what to do’
Behind The Lens episode 227: ‘There’s no real public oversight’
Behind The Lens episode 226: ‘The means to fight this’
Behind The Lens episode 225: ‘If there’s an accident, it’d be hard to evacuate’ ‘
Behind The Lens episode 224: ‘Holding power to account’