Fathers Day has come and gone, and sadly, so too has the concept of fatherhood in many parts of Alabama. Nearly half of all babies born...
Imagine this scenario: A thief calls the local police and tells them that he’s been stealing from local homes and businesses, and that he plans to...
I’m betting U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, has his fingers tightly crossed today. And his toes. Probably his eyes, too. Anything he can cross, Jones likely...
It’s such a shame to see racist pandering go wasted. But such is life for Tommy Tuberville and Bradley Byrne, it appears. Two reasonable, educated men,...
Some of us who were former legislators, who served our counties in the Legislature a long time, were considered by many to always be their legislator....
Alabama has been in the news lately for recently passing the nation’s strongest anti-abortion rights law, but it also just enacted what is being hailed by...
In “How to Convince Americans to Abolish the Death Penalty,” Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat asserts “important lessons about how abolitionists can be successful around the country”...
Decades of bad immigration policies have undermined our laws and led to the worst conditions at our border we’ve ever seen. U.S. Border Patrol agents have...
There is something terribly wrong when two influential senators can lie, cheat and defraud the people without retribution. As the Scottish novelist Walter Scott wrote over...
I’m glad the U.S. Women’s World Cup soccer team celebrated after each goal in its 13-0 win over Thailand. I’m happy about that. I’m thrilled, in...