Money has a gravitational effect on politics. A little can tilt campaigns and policy. A lot warps the democratic process like a bowling ba...

  About every other day in Alabama, a woman suspecting she is pregnant seeks abortion counseling at an Alabama clinic without knowing how fa...

  This much we know: Alabama’s gender-affirming care ban will be law for the foreseeable future.   Attorneys for transgender young people an...

  There are two sorts of conservatism.   There’s the kind espoused by the 18th-century British politician Edmund Burke. It emphasizes restra...

  Back on the morning of Jan. 26, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall praised the state’s prison officials for a “textbook” nitrogen gas...

  Over the past year, I have been on a speaking tour throughout the state – especially leading up to the General Election. The reason for vi...

  I don’t know what constituency supports gouging prisoners’ families.   Is there a well-adjusted person whose vote depends on making prison...

  I’m tired of the hateful nonsense directed at immigrants.   I’m disappointed that hardly any elected officials — either in Alabama or in o...

  Jenice Fountain could not believe what she was hearing.   Was that Steve Marshall, the attorney general of Alabama, on talk radio, threate...

  Measles can do a lot more than give a child a rash.    It can start a 104 degree fever and cause eye-swelling. About 10% of kids who get m...

  One thing is clear from Marilyn Lands’ House District 10 victory: Abortion still motivates Democrats.   Lands turned a seven-point loss in...

  Last Tuesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a “statement on redistricting to the people of Alabama.”   It said his office...

  In Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers are threatening to impeach both the state’s election administrator, who is highly regarded nationally, ...

  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall got sued last week over some comments he made a year ago about the state’s near-total abortion ban...

  All signs point to a Titanic political year in 2022. In fact, as I look back over the last six decades of my observations of Alabama polit...

  As we begin this new year of 2019, Alabama begins a new quadrennium in state government.   All of our Alabama Constitutional officeholde...

  In politics, perception is reality. It is perceived and therefore factual that a Democrat cannot win a statewide race in Alabama.   The ...

  Currently, congressmen/women win reelection at a 98 percent rate. The communist politburo does not have that high of a reelection percenta...

  The storyline of last week’s GOP Primary Runoff was the extremely low turnout. The big surprises to me were the big victories by Steve Mar...

  Well, folks, if you voted in the Republican primary, you may want to go back to the polls next week and finish selecting the GOP nominees ...