By and large, today’s Alabamians don’t vote for candidates. They vote for parties. For policies. For ideologies. Candidates’ names and idiosyncrasies are essentially irrelevant. Party affiliations rule.
Remember how Democrats in the first year of the Trump administration openly discussed impeachment as a way to rid the Oval Office of this controversial president?
WASHINGTON -- In the hierarchy of pleasures, schadenfreude ranks second only to dry martinis at dusk, so conservatives are enjoying Harvard's entanglement with two things it has not sufficiently questioned -- regulatory government and progressive sentiment. The trial that recently ended in B…
Put bluntly, Alabama Democrats are a political family whose Thanksgiving get-together will be fraught with tension, in-fighting and an unhealthy dose of drama.
Let’s take a little drive.
I am not suggesting that Trump catch pneumonia or die, but he should honor and respect those Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice on the altar of freedom.
Maris Curran, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, has collaborated with The New York Times to produce a 14-minute documentary abut the Gee's Bend quilters of Alabama. The Star and other Alabama newspapers and historians have written about these amazing women for generations, but Curran's document…
WASHINGTON -- It has been long rumored that the Republican Party has a woman problem, so much so that a few years ago GOP congressmen sent aides to classes on how to talk to and about women.
WASHINGTON -- When French President Emmanuel Macron denounced populist nationalism this week and called on world leaders to support institutions such as the United Nations that defend "the common good of the world," liberal elites cheered. The speech was seen as a rebuke of President Trump, …
California could do a number of things to hold these wildfires to a minimum and make them less severe.
How else can you explain all the Christian conservatives looking the other way while he has told 5,000+ false or misleading statements in two years?
In light of Alabama voters' approval last week of Amendment 2, here are a few facts coming from Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., a law professor at the University of Alabama and author of “Reclaiming the Petition Clause.”
The long-term question for downtown Anniston doesn’t revolve solely around the selection of a new location for City Hall. Instead, it’s more serious:
In an interview following the premier of Spider-Man the big-screen movie, Lee said he designed Spider-Man’s costume to fully cover his body because Lee wanted black, Hispanic and Asian boys and girls to believe they, too, could be Spider-Man, that they, too, could be the hero.
Last week's midterm elections instantly caused a debate: who won, Republicans or Democrats?
We’re all just people trying to live our lives. The more we remember that and stop the “us vs. them,” the more we win.
House Democrats won last Tuesday, but how big that win turns out to be will depend on what they do with it.
WASHINGTON -- Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida. President George W. Bush was eventually declared winner in the Sunshine State (and thus the election) by 537 votes out of…
WASHINGTON -- In mob movies they call it "going to the mattresses"-- getting ready for war.
WASHINGTON -- Brett Kavanaugh must have been smiling as the returns came in on Election Day, because it is now clear that the Democrats' campaign to destroy him will go down as a massive blunder. It failed to keep Kavanaugh off the court. It cost Democrats their chance to regain control of t…
WASHINGTON -- In the previous 50 years, the state of Mississippi has validated Lord Tennyson's belief that "men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." Now the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for 20 more days to provide the court with a defense of the propo…
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't a blue trickle, but nor was it a tsunami. Rather, the midterm elections brought a gentle, purplish wave of mostly center-leaning Democrats whose profiles suggest a welcome infusion of professionalism and balance to a disorderly House.
Re “Alabama’s repugnant new policy” (Editorial, Nov. 9):
