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Alabama Drama Ends on a Sweet Note Dec. 15, 2017
Sweet home Alabama. The rock 'n' roll song serenaded a swath of Democrats jubilantly watching the s... Read More
The Future for Republicans Dec. 15, 2017
Senate Republicans breathed a big sigh of relief Tuesday night when Roy Moore went down to defeat in... Read More
Alabama Was a Win, and Not Just for Democrats Dec. 14, 2017
The Democratic conquest of a senate seat in Alabama produced a lot of winners other than the victor ... Read More
Hope Bloomed in Alabama Dec. 13, 2017
Just two years ago, 65-year-old Peggy Wallace Kennedy stood on the steps of the Alabama Capitol and ... Read More
It Wasn't All Steve Bannon Dec. 13, 2017
Republican politics was starting to feel like a version of Mel Brooks' "The Producers." In the play,... Read More
Roy Moore Poisons Alabama's Business Climate Dec. 07, 2017
In 2006, a Chicago schoolteacher was sentenced to three years in prison for molesting teenage girls.... Read More
Why Roy Moore Matters Nov. 28, 2017
Why would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy ... Read More
At Least He's Not a Democrat, Right? Nov. 21, 2017
Let's imagine that Roy Moore is a Democrat and not a Republican. And let's pretend he's an atheist a... Read More
No, Roy Moore, God Won't Solve Our Problems Nov. 19, 2017
Roy Moore's die-hard supporters have shown a vast capacity to accept his denials as a procession of ... Read More
Will Political Setbacks Unite the Republican Party? Nov. 17, 2017
The inexorable workings of the political marketplace seem to be enforcing some discipline over hithe... Read More
Our Country Turns to You, Alabama Nov. 15, 2017
Like so many women in recent days, I've discovered a renewed interest in who and what I was at age 1... Read More
An Acid Test for the Self-Righteous Right Nov. 13, 2017
Whenever a politician insists too much on his own pious morality — and his duty to impose that... Read More
Social Conservatives Finally Find an Activist Judge They Can Embrace Nov. 07, 2017
For quite some time now conservative Republicans have been screaming about activist judges who put t... Read More
Both Parties Trying Even Harder to Defeat Themselves Oct. 27, 2017
Three weeks ago, I wrote a column about how both parties seem determined to lose the next elections.... Read More
Can Trump Get the Job Done? Oct. 01, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his Republican Party should be celebrating. The GOP ju... Read More
Judge Moore & God's Law Sep. 29, 2017
When elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000, Judge Roy Moore installed in his co... Read More
Trump's Future Lies in Alabama Sep. 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — The future of Donald Trump's presidency could ride on what Alabama Republicans do... Read More
Judge Roy Moore Is Resonating Sep. 06, 2017
The rising political star of Judge Roy Moore in Alabama is another surprise in a political season de... Read More
Innocents Online With Ashley Madison Sep. 01, 2015
To the thousands who've been outed as users of the Ashley Madison adultery website: You deserve symp... Read More
The Meaning of Charleston Jun. 25, 2015
Almost immediately after a white killer gunned down nine black worshippers at a historic church in C... Read More
