This week marks many beginnings for our university. We begin a football season in which the Crimson Tide will defend Alabama’s thirteenth national championship. This week sees the beginning—for many...

I possess an abudance of adoration and pride in my home of Alabama. There are so very many things I love about this state. The beaches, the mountains, the small town feel just about everywhere, the sense...

So, are you tweeting? The Crimson White is, but 58 percent of UA students probably aren’t. And 50 percent of those non-tweeters really enjoy making fun of their friends who tweet: “You makin’ a sandwich...

TV Land, a cable refuge for hopeless nostalgists, is currently celebrating 50 days of “The Andy Griffith Show” to commemorate the television classic’s 50th Anniversary. The event may warrant a national...

People get angry about a lot of things: early morning traffic jams, loud parties on school nights and buildings related to a religion they dislike. We don't like being angry, and it's our instinct to seek...

I appreciate the interest Reed Watson has taken in my music column about The Dexateens. To stimulate frank conversation is the goal of anyone who aspires to write for the public’s consumption, and certainly...

I woke up on Tuesday, Aug. 24 and my phone had been ringing so much it had fallen off the mantle—and I don’t sleep late. The text messages and the phone calls all referred me to Morgan Dowdy’s column...

Last week, the Pew Research Center released the results of a nationwide poll indicating nearly one in five Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. In this widely published poll, 18 percent of Americans...

There was an odd thematic consistency to the weekend news cycle, a potpourri of headlines linked by the concept of restoration. Fox News demagogue Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the National...