This was all preventable. We need to acknowledge that. If two officers have blood on their hands, ours are tinged a light red. If Micah Johnson deserved to explode, a piece of shrapnel was intended for every one of us. Alton Sterling. Philando Ca...
Last week, Congress finished its investigation into the terrorist attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya... again.This investigation, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), was the eighth of its kind. However, even after rel...
Have ideas about how the world ought to be? How the government ought to run? Don’t fool yourself: you’ll probably be voting out of self-interest come November.Don’t get me wrong, you’ll have quite a few justification...
The current iteration of our country’s lawmaking body, the 114th Congress, is being historically unproductive in the lawmaking department, rivaled only by the two previous Republican-controlled Congresses under President Oba...
Upon reading Kyle Simpson’s latest column, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by a small truth he stated earlier in the column.Many students, as well as adults, are disinterested in politics and getting involved in electi...
When people think of hubs of environmental diversity, they likely think of places like the Amazon rainforest, tropical islands or other distant, faraway places. However, many do not realize the state of Alabama is home to some ...
I feel like I can’t escape the 2016 election. Every time I log on Facebook, read the news or even turn on the radio, I see and hear friends, pundits and analysts weighing in on how much longer Donald Trump can stay in the ra...
If you’ve been awake this week, you know that Pope Francis is in the United States, and he’s turning tables per usual. From rolling around D.C. in a Fiat, to becoming the first pontiff to canonize a saint on American soil, to...
The top three polling candidates for the Republican nomination for President - Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina - have more in common with one another than their terrible political views. None of the three has any ex...
