Conservative writers are disappearing. Outside the narrow confines of Fox News and Breitbart, hardly worthy arbiters of philosophy, conservative intellectuals are becoming increasingly absent from mainstream...

If you are reading this, you are probably bad with money. That’s not meant to be an insult, just a statistical observation. In fact, most Americans are bad with money. The median retirement savings for...

America has a tenuous relationship with the facts. Which is why, when I read Sam West’s piece “Against Facts, Logic and Reason,” I was dismayed. It was particularly discouraging to hear those words...

The Houston storm is shaping up to be one of the worst in recent American history. Unprecedented flooding is ravaging coastal communities, leaving thousands homeless and incurring hundreds of billions...

This Halloween, I’m dressing up as the scariest thing I can imagine. And no, it’s not Donald Trump – it’s student loan debt. What makes student loan debt so spooky is only partially related to...

At 340,000 words and over 800 amendments, Alabama’s State Constitution is the world’s longest functioning constitution. But length alone is not the reason that Robert McCurley, attorney and former...

Muhammad Farooq, a a graduate student in electrical engineering from Peshawar, Pakistan, is the current president of the Muslim Student Association. Farooq said the organization recently returned to campus...

Members of The University of Alabama community gathered together for the 2-year birthday bash for Tide Talks on Friday. The lecture team celebrated the occasion with piñatas, cake and a wide host of speakers...

The innovative lecture organization Tide Talks turns two years old Friday and everyone on campus is invited to the birthday bash. Tide Talks X will begin at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Auditorium and...

Students, faculty and community members gathered with Michael Antolin of Colorado State University to discuss evolution in medicine and how an understanding of the fundamental science can change therapies...

Thursday afternoon, the Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering will continue its “Take a Journey in Science” lecture series with “Let There Be Light: LED Applications from Lighting to Killing...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UA professor Rick Bragg will share his stories of his writing and travels from Miami to the Middle East at a lecture hosted by Alpine Living. The lecture will serve as...

United States diplomats continue talks this week with Cuban officials over President Barack Obama’s recent lessening of sanctions that began over 50 years ago. More than 765 miles from Havana, students...

As students return to campus with their laptops, smartphones and tablets, some may fail to realize the risks they face with technology. Blackhat hacking, which can have destructive implications for victims,...

After over two decades of teaching Italian, professor Maurizio Godorecci has become something of a legend in the University of Alabama Italian Language Department.“It has been a pleasure to be able to...

As 2014 draws to a close, Washington politicians and the tech-savvy are filling the media with a phrase most Americans know next-to-nothing about: net neutrality. And yet, an early 2015 ruling by the Federal...

Physicians, community members and students congregated Nov. 13 at the Tuscaloosa River Market to listen to Washington Post journalist T.R. Reid discuss health care in the United States and around the world....

U.S. fighter pilots were joined yesterday by British allies in the fight against the Islamic State, whose violence paralyzed large parts of Iraq and Syria over the past few months. Nearly 7,000 miles away,...

Thanks to research co-authored by University of Alabama researchers, Americans can likely expect to see a decrease in the nearly 60,000 patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease each year. Parkinson’s...

Tuesday night, Representative Joe Hubbard met and mingled with 
students and community members at the College Democrats meeting 
as he addressed the subjects of authenticity and accountability 
in...

By Ben Jackson | Contributing Writer Lauren Howell is aiming for the stars – a bit more literally than most of her classmates. Howell, a sophomore majoring in aerospace engineering at The University...

UA student Tyler Jones may diagnose a condition, prescribe medication or even perform a surgery, but he will do all of this without an M.D. behind his name. Jones, a junior majoring in psychology, is one...

Tuesday night’s City Council Meeting ran unusually long as representatives and supporters of Jinsei, a high end sushi restaurant chain, battled with the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society and other...

A historically conservative state with a Republican supermajority in both houses, Alabama often finds its Democratic gubernatorial candidates without much traction. Tuesday night at Ridgecrest South courtyard,...