The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence scores states based on their gun control laws. My home state of Texas has received four points out of a maximum 100. Given that information, the reader might...

During my freshman year last year at The University of Alabama, I, like many other students, had to invest in a clicker for some of my lecture classes. However, at the beginning of this semester, I was...

I was born and raised in the South. I am used to short winters and summers with heat that can be compared to Hades. With this said, I know I am not the only one who was a little disoriented by the snow....

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...