On April 22, the Supreme Court is hearing City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. Lower courts had ruled that it was “cruel and unusual punishment,” and therefore against the Eighth Amendment, for...

“Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse” is a pretty simple maxim. You shouldn’t put someone in a position of responsibility who can’t be trusted with that responsibility. But for some reason,...

On Super Tuesday, March 5, almost a dozen candidates were on the ballot as potential Democratic nominees to represent Alabama’s newly redrawn Black opportunity district, District 2. Two moved on to...

Let me be clear: I want the Northport water park project to succeed. I even think it’s got a decent chance, despite the developer’s troubling history of unfinished projects. But Northport’s elected...

I don't like TikTok. I don’t think you should use TikTok. But you should be able to. As someone who has never even downloaded TikTok, my experience with the site is essentially limited to my friend...

Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, a former UA SGA president, was entrusted with giving the Republican response to President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. And on March 7, she betrayed that trust. Britt...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article misstated the context of George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Wallace blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium in 1963, not 1956, to prevent...

The Alabama Legislature is really on a roll. It’s trying to remove all real penalties for political corruption. The state House just passed a bill to legalize gambling, which will only make it easier...

In 2024, people are placing bets on just about anything, including whether Taylor Swift would announce she’s pregnant with Travis Kelce’s child at the Super Bowl (she did not). Well, not in Alabama.  Here...

“Dude, he could be like the most powerful man in the world one day,” one awestruck student said on their way out of the selfie assembly line. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would certainly like you to think...

Local news outlets are dying. According to a recent report from the Medill Local News Initiative, more than 2,800 newspapers, predominantly local papers, have closed their doors since 2005 due in part...

More than 30,000 members of the United Auto Workers are currently on strike at plants owned by the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. “You can be loyal to American labor or...

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was indicted Sept. 22 for allegedly pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including literal bars of gold. However, those who pay attention to Alabama politics...

There are two universities at the Capstone. One provides undergraduate students with the higher education needed in today’s professional world, while the other serves graduate students seeking advanced...

You can get a master’s in public administration at The University of Alabama, but you can’t get a bachelor’s in public administration. If you want to show potential employers that you spent years...

America is a gerontocracy. According to Pew Research Center, the median voting House member is 57.9 years old and the median senator is 65.3 years old. President Joe Biden is 80, and if he’s reelected...

Employer-sponsored health insurance is a horrific and costly policy failure, but the only thing worse than relying on your employer for health insurance is not having health insurance at all. A 2019...

Tuscaloosa is a college town. It’s been a college town since the state capitol moved to Montgomery in 1847. So why are the Tuscaloosa City Council and The University of Alabama making it so hard for...

If conservative politicians get their way, America is about to suffer through a third Red Scare.  Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fl., has declared that socialists “are not welcome” in his state, and the former...

If you’re thinking about changing your major, do it. If you start feeling like you should drop one of your classes, do it. College is a period of personal transformation for every student. Many incoming...

Whenever it looks like workers might be going on strike, headlines focus on costs to companies and to consumers. The simultaneous strikes by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and...

The modern American university is a dragon, napping decades away atop mountains of gold. The Ivies and other elite universities sit on tens of billions of dollars they seem afraid to ever spend. Even The...

Every year since the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, Americans have celebrated on the Fourth of July. Constitution Day (Sept. 17) and Bill of Rights Day (Dec. 15) don’t...

Editor's Note (6/8/23): This story has been correctly updated to fix an error on alcohol taxes.  Drinking in moderation isn’t good for you, you don’t need to drink to have fun, and Prohibition...

To be frank, Marianne Williamson will not be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2024. You should still vote for her in the primary. Williamson is a 2020 Democratic primary “also-ran”...

We all want to be good people and we all want to help save the planet, but it seems like most people forget that come mealtime. If you aren’t already vegetarian or vegan, you should consider eating...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s recent report to Congress about homelessness in America found that half a million people were homeless in January 2022. The average American renter is...

A lot of students at The University of Alabama are angry that parking on campus is expensive and time-consuming. They shouldn’t be. In The Crimson White’s February Instagram poll, both commuting...

I proudly do all of my banking with a credit union, and you should, too. College is when many young adults first begin to control their own finances: getting their first credit cards, opening personal...

One of the most poignant lyrics I’ve heard comes from the poem-turned-song, “Bread and Roses.” It goes, “Yes, it is bread we fight for / but we fight for roses, too.” The poem emerged from...

Less than a 40-minute drive from Tuscaloosa, almost 700 coal miners have now been on strike for 679 days. Members of United Mine Workers of America District 20 work in mines operated by Warrior Met...

In his recent book, Eric Rauchway, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, describes the importance of the New Deal beautifully: “The New Deal matters because we all live in it;...