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Construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline has quietly attracted an alarming amount of aggressive protesters, arriving from around the country and using destructive means to stall the project’s completion. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline is a 163-mile crude oil pipeline that will extend through southern Louisiana, running across the state’s Atchafalaya Basin. The project is actually a “phase II” of Bayou Bridge that already runs from east Texas to Lake Charles, La. When completed, the new pipeline will run from Lake Charles to St. James, La. and carry up to 480,000 barrels of crude oil a day. Project construction will bring...

As most of the nation celebrates the volunteerism so evident in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, a sense of disquiet seems to be afoot among fans of Big Government. People who spontaneously organize impressive responses might make the public feel as though government doesn’t have all the answers, and that self-reliance beats waiting for the government to solve their problems. Why, that's troubling. Something like this mental process must have prompted New Yorker editor David Remnick to greenlight this article, titled, “Why does American need the Cajun Navy?” Benjamin Wallace-Wells (you already guessed the author would have a hyphenated last...