Mark Moseley, Author at The Lens

Try to imagine full-throated apologies from the prosecutors axed in ‘Commentgate’

Much remains mysterious about the ethical rot that led federal prosecutors to indulge in anonymous online chatter.

These omissions and mysteries are more than just a nuisance to Commentgate obsessives.

How do you “start over” when anyone who googles your name knows you were once a coke-fueled maniac dressed in, say, a chicken outfit?

Instead of veiling it with code words, Jindal should own his gender discrimination. File some lawsuits, settle the constitutional question, already!

Journalists who buy into Big Oil’s talking points would have us believe BP-style spills are a thing of the past.

The right wing’s rebuttal to accusations of bigotry has been to declare that the “real racists” today are liberals.

The Landrieu administration devised a grow-or-die strategy for post-Katrina recovery and hopes to bring it to consummation by 2018.

Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.

Jindal’s own plan — income tax abolition and a sky-high sales tax — was laughed out of the 2013 Legislature.

No, he’s not just aiming for the vice presidency, Moseley argues. That would be a sign of impotence that just guarantees defeat.