The enduring legacy and painstaking repetition of the world’s most powerful nation is perhaps no more evident than on the few days throughout our rich history when we inaugurate a president. For decades,...

If you’re anything like me, you have probably grown tired of the seemingly endless debate over health care in the past year. The health care law appears to be almost as divisive as the Alabama-LSU rivalry...

Being a young adult under the Obama administration, this is the most I have seen of any president. It is also the most attention I have seen focused on the first family, specifically the first lady. However,...

“Tradition” is as non-threatening a word as “box” or “cat.” It does not incite fury or euphoria within me. The term only seeks to unite people around a shared history and heritage. Tradition...

As we reminisce in the defeat of the Irish and the disappearance of Manti Te’o’s “girlfriend,” Saban has moved on, shifting focus to a new season and different team. However, one thing that will...

Last week I wrote critically about media’s responses to a mass killing. That was unlikely to anger anyone because the media are an easy target. At the risk of continuing the metamorphosis of this opinion...

Monday made a statement. It came and went in a unimposing manner, with no indication to its relative significance over any other day. The sun came up, the sun went down, and we all grew one day older....

Before I came to college, I didn’t know anything about any of the dorms – which of them were Honors, which had certain reputations – but in my first few weeks on campus, I quickly came to know a...

At the start of every new semester, students are forced to think about the future. Advising sessions for fall 2013 are scheduled beginning in January, people start leasing apartments as early as a year...