Josh Moon

Josh Moon is an investigative reporter and columnist. You can reach him at [email protected].

Elections

Alabama’s past racism is going to hurt its current efforts to do future racism

The Supreme Court's recent opinion in a Louisiana voting case requires that states governed by racists at least try to mask their racism.

May 5, 2026

The cheating is not OK

This rush to cheat at voting in the wake of the Supreme Court decision further gutting the Voting Rights Act is so very depressing.

May 1, 2026

Democratic debates have been an embarrassment. Doug Jones should keep avoiding them

Doug Jones has declined to debate the other Democratic candidates for governor. It's the right decision. Because his absence is exactly the proper message.

April 28, 2026

The SPLC indictment is exactly what you think it is—pure BS

The Trump DOJ that doesn’t have time to bring charges against anyone in the Epstein files wants to explore a wild conspiracy about the SPLC.

April 22, 2026

Maybe you should move to California

Independent thinking ain’t our strong suit. Never has been.

April 20, 2026

The ignorance is killing people in Montgomery

A whole bunch of people in this debate over Montgomery aren’t interested in actually solving the problems. They’re only interested in the public fight.

April 17, 2026

The ALGOP battle to do nothing for you

ALGOP has gerrymandered itself into a mess, and its a mess that isn't working for Alabama.

April 15, 2026

Stop treating those dogs like we treat humans!

Imagine if we even dared talk about dogs the way some of our politicians talk about other humans.

April 13, 2026

Can we please stop electing unserious people to do serious jobs?

When did being a pandering bigot become more politically valuable than being a competent, sane public servant?

April 10, 2026

Former Tuberville staffer, sportscaster arrested for misusing Motorsports position

A former Birmingham sports anchor and former regional director for Senator Tommy Tuberville was arrested last week on public corruption charges.

April 7, 2026