Picture New Orleans A gallery of images from photographer Tema Stauffer showing aspects of New Orleans—abandoned lives, startling ruin, subtle beauty—you can’t catch on CNN.

The Summing Up We may spend more time with our co-workers than our families, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them. Our D.C. correspondent Clay Risen starts a new job and barely gets past the front desk.

Inside Looking Out A new graduate knows everything. What could the real world teach that hasn’t already been learned in those four long, grueling years? Out of college, Andrew Womack goes to Dallas, tries not to get a job, gets one anyway, and learns something new. And then quits his job.

Darth Vader Made Me Cry From the first moment you see Darth Vader choke that rebel fighter, you know he’s evil. The helmet, the cape, the breathing? Evil, evil, evil. Matthew Baldwin remembers when he met Vader at a shopping center and learned that evil really is as evil does.