Peplum tops and dresses. High-waisted shorts. Dark lipstick. These are all topical fashion trends for women, yes, but more importantly, these are all fashion trends that men apparently hate. According...

The Medicaid expansion debate in Alabama has centered almost exclusively on cost concerns and states’ rights arguments, and Gov. Robert Bentley did not depart from these predictable talking points in...

Generally, I am pretty terrible at keeping up with news in the music and movie industries. Actually, my general pop culture IQ ranks somewhere in the “they let her outside, don’t they?” range. However,...

Critiques of today’s pop music are easy to come by. You don’t have to look terribly far to find writers lamenting contemporary artists’ reliance on auto-tune, banal lyricism and gimmicky performances....

Every Saturday I join a group of volunteers at the West Alabama Women’s Center as a clinic escort. I’m unapologetically pro-choice. Escorting patients from their cars to the clinic’s front door is...

At the start of every academic semester, there is that brief period of time where students are allowed to switch classes and professors at the click of a mouse, touch of an iPhone or with the help of one’s...

Last week America saw a string of deadly shootings, mainly on university campuses, and one shooting in a shopping mall in Maryland. These shootings are not linked and the motives vary, but is this becoming...

I really hate going to the dentist. Even before you get there, it’s not a fun experience. Then once you get there, there’s the dentist, lovely as they often are, poking around with their instruments....

Last week, the United States Department of Justice released the findings of their investigation into Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison for Women. They laid out an environment where one-third of the staff has...

As I reflect on our state’s refusal to expand Medicaid, I must question why Alabama citizens allow our leaders to make ignorant and costly decisions for our state. Is it perhaps because we ourselves...

Like something directly out of “Cool Runnings,” the Jamaican bobsled team has once again managed to qualify for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Still, they have found themselves about $80,000 short of...