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More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, our country has failed to realize the goals set forth in the landmark Supreme Court case. Increasingly, schools are experiencing “resegregation.” This is neither healthy for the individual students who are isolated from other racial groups nor a good...

Lately I’ve noticed many people talking about Southern tradition and culture. This conversation greatly piqued my interest because of my linguistics...

OleMissProblems has the potential to be an exponentially better Twitter account to follow, but recently its account holder tweeted something that might...

In January, I begin my final year of college. With graduation around the corner, I have begun looking at graduate schools and job prospects. One of the...

This past Friday I had a lazy day filled with leftovers, a leisurely run and a long car drive with good music back to Oxford. It wasn’t until I had to...

I was raised Catholic, but I wouldn’t call myself Catholic. That being said, this new pope is dope! Apologies for the easy rhyme, but he seems like a...

With another attempted policy improvement, the White House has ensnared itself and the United States in another foreign policy predicament. The misstep...

On Nov. 9, 2013 our son Christopher was killed in an auto accident in Oxford along with another young man, Kevin Eagan. Christopher was a junior at Ole...

After arguably the wildest finish to a college football game that I have ever seen, Alabama is outside of the national BCS Championship conversation …...

On November 1st, 2013, a US drone strike killed Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistani Taliban. The death of Mehsud is indisputably a victory for the...