Perhaps the most difficult battle in Alabama state politics is electing a Democrat to office. Alabama elected Republicans in every state and national election from 2000 to 2014 with the exception of the...

The only constant in the world is change. Charles Darwin understood this perhaps more than anyone, because this idea is central to the pattern of evolution by natural selection. Evolution acknowledges...

A few weeks ago, The University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre & Dance put on a production in the Allen Bales Theatre entitled “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia,...

The Alabama football team has only three home games left. Only three more games for students to blanket the quad, decked in their finest crimson and white, three more games to violently wave thousands...

After I read Jack Kitchin’s article that blatantly generalized not only the “left” as being some massive immoral Anti-Christ, but Christians being somehow both more moral and more oppressed in their...

Religious freedom is an absolutely vital part of any democracy, and America is of course no exception. People should be able to worship as they please without fear of persecution. However, for incomprehensible...

The subject “UAPD Campus Safety Advisory” seems to always flash across my phone as I read my e-mail notifications. At this point, these e-mails don’t even phase me anymore. How did it get to this...

On October 1st at 10 pm, a gunman by the name of Stephen Paddock, perched from a hotel room at the Mandala Bay casino in Las Vegas, used an illegal semi-automatic modification to murder 59 people and injure...

I have a small copy of the Constitution that I keep on my bookshelf. I don’t open it up very often – there’s really no need to – but it’s nice to know that it’s there.  I wouldn’t call myself...

On Saturday night during halftime, Abigail Greenberg was crowned homecoming queen of the University of Alabama. By all accounts, she was a competent candidate, running on a platform of raising awareness...

“Don’t try to impose those things on me or even speak of them because they're offensive to me and therefore can’t be tolerated.”  Last Monday evening, former Senator Rick Santorum used these words...

I was 16, and it was the summer before my junior year. I looked through the discounted CDs at Walmart, debating over a Fleetwood Mac album and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Greatest Hits.” ...