Moseley acknowledges it’s a bit of a confidence game at first, but if the tax plan coincides with continuing business expansion, voodoo economics may finally have found its high priest.
Father Michael notes that financial inequality is at its worst level since the 1920s and prays that Congress will find the courage to attack the federal debt in a way that includes tax increases on the wealthy, not just cuts that hit middle-class and poor Americans hardest.
An aficionado of the local literary scene salutes the new direction the Tennessee Williams Festival seems to have taken.
Columnist Moseley wonders whether Jim Letten's downfall was rooted more deeply than many pundits acknowledge.
Now it appears that there may have been more serious and systemic problems during Letten’s term than we ever knew.
The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
Says Moseley: The real issue is public money being used to support sham science. Doubting evolution is fine on your own time or in religion class, perhaps.
Private prep school have forged many of secondary education's "best practices." Folwell Dunbar says the best public charter schools are smart to be copycats.
LSU tried to discredit Ivor van Heerden and then fired him for speaking out about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' failures with the levees in New Orleans. Now the university is fighting his wrongful termination lawsuit.
