On March 21, the day of the House of Representatives’ historic vote on health care reform, around 200,000 people descended on Capitol Hill to make a point. They weren’t there to spit on congressmen...

By Peter Sloan Something has been happening this year on campus that I find very encouraging. More than in my previous three years at the University, students and faculty have been engaged in an extended,...

When I received UA President Robert Witt’s campus-wide e-mail urging me to call my representatives and tell them to support the bill that would not place a tuition cap on PACT students, I almost lost...

In short: State legislators are using secretive tactics to hide their behavior, and it sets a bad example for future leaders. It’s no wonder local leaders from Larry Langford to our SGA often face claims...

The media gets a lot of criticism for having a left-wing bias, and maybe they (we) do, at least a little bit. One thing that is indisputable, however, is that the right is driving debate. Talk about health...

Approximately 523,521 Californians signed a petition, presented Thursday, to put legalization of marijuana to a referendum vote in November. Props, California. Good job. Not necessarily because you,...

In short: The state should fully fund PACT, or it is robbing parents of their investments and students of their opportunities. As it stands right now, many Alabama parents will have to pay out of pocket...

Supporters have praised President Obama’s health care reform bill as a historic landmark in our nation’s history — and so it is, but not for the reasons that many of them claim. The concept itself...

To me, there’s nothing more satisfying than cracking open the binding of a fresh book. You have to use your physical senses and make the literature a part of you in order to read it. Naturally, you...

When Iranian authorities refused to allow western journalists into the country following the controversial 2009 presidential election, many were worried that news of the Iranian citizens’ protests would...

Members of the class of 2010 nationwide and here at the University applied to Teach For America in record numbers – more than 46,000 applicants for this fall’s class of 4,350 teacher corps members....

In short: The NCAA’s ruling that Alabama will vacate wins in football, track and men’s tennis is excessive and inconsistent. Alabama athletes stopped abusing their textbook scholarships in 2007. The...