If there is one thing that all of the Republican presidential candidates can agree on, it is the importance of winning this election. Time after time we hear everyone from Governor John Kasich to Ben Carson...

First and foremost, I would like to air my personal bias on the subject: even though I am a Republican, I am in no way a Trump-et, Trump-ite or in any other way a Donald Trump supporter.In many ways, I...

Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a strange new college football world. A world full of “kick-sixes” and basketball schools winning at football haunted the 2013 football season. This was a season that...

As a non-Catholic, I can honestly say that I never understood people’s fascination with the Papacy. However, when Pope Benedict XVI resigned, I quickly tuned in – largely due to the scandal of it –...

The city of Tuscaloosa actually has a downtown area that is roughly double that of Athens, Ga. Unfortunately, it is so underused you’d never know it. Tuscaloosa is less of a city and more a weak grouping...

As University students we have already made the first of many big decisions in our lives; attending the Capstone has vaulted us into the elite echelons of our society. Only 20 percent of Alabamians have...

Politics in the United States have always been a messy business; the recent government shutdown is no exception. When the clock struck midnight at the start of the new fiscal year, every politician and...

In 1913, former UA President G. H. Denny first referred to the University as the Capstone because of the University’s role as the high point of the state’s public education system. The nickname has...

My name is William Tomas Gonzalez, and I am a member of the 3% of students that comprise the Hispanic-American community here at The University of Alabama. However, as I am constantly reminded, I look...

It is a long-held truism in American politics that at their root, all politics are local. However, if the recent School Board District 4 election taught us anything, it’s that the politics may not be...