By Cady Inabinett, Editor in chief It feels incredibly surreal to be writing my final letter from the editor. Very surreal, and very sad in a certain way. I feel like there’s a spectrum of…
America’s labor shortage and the plague of exploitation
By Xander Swain With businesses eager to return to whatever post-COVID normalcy may currently exist, a wave of labor movements has spread across the country. These labor movements gained traction in the face of increasingly exposed…
In the game of politics, the people lose
By: Harrison Neville In the tense political climate that we are currently living in, there are some words that you know are guaranteed to generate a response. The list is long and the responses vary depending…
Video games should not be movies
By: Noah Wortham The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, was the very first home video game console. According to the Computer Museum of America, “all its game programs were practically the same with slight variations” and it…
From outside the box
By Rose Davis It’s a problem I have at least twice a week. I look left, right, left again. One door has an image of a human form with a dress. The other is the…
Changing names: The erasure of married women
By Hannah Irvin When I told my first boyfriend that I didn’t want to change my last name if we got married, he became upset. He believed that a woman taking her husband’s last name…
Letter from the editor: A thank you to…
By Harrison Neville Dear readers, One of the first stories I ever wrote for The Alabamian was when I covered Montevallo’s Tinglewood festival back in the fall of 2018. I can still remember how nervous I was, as…
Texas abortion restrictions devalue life
By Ariel Hall A few weeks ago, when I saw that the most restrictive abortion law was passed in Texas, my heart stopped. This law bans abortion as soon as “cardiac activity is detectable,” which is about…