Opinion

Rewriting the history being taught in our schools is not only a personal attack on America’s identity but also a precarious game that will only bring harm for generations to come. When history is not learned, it is repeated. Already,...

On Labor Day, Americans take a break and enjoy the surplus goods of the American Dream in honor of the contributions of the American workforce towards the betterment of the nation. Labor Day, a holiday created from the passionate cries...

Welcome back to the Velvet Ditch, Rebs. For those of us who have attended the Flagship long enough to remember a pre-COVID-19 campus, this fall is the closest to a “normal” semester we’ve experienced in what feels like forever. Classes...

As the last American troops have left Afghanistan, figures from all sides of the political spectrum will attempt to characterize our 20 years there. Journalists and late-night hosts have commentated and – sometimes insensitively – made jokes about the situation...

The University of Mississippi, led by Chancellor Glenn Boyce, instituted a controversial mask mandate earlier this month after promising a return to normalcy for Ole Miss students. The City of Oxford followed suit on Aug. 25. On the surface, these...

The pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, pushing us online, limiting our contact with others, and causing growing feelings of isolation. For some, this isolation has resulted in political insulation, where differing viewpoints are never heard unless...

Over the summer, Ole Miss students received two very different emails addressing what COVID protocols for the upcoming Fall semester will look like. On June 24, the Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs sent an email to students detailing the...

High school students across the U.S., and especially the South, graduate and enter a world on their own without the proper tools to enter adulthood, sexual education being one of them. As students step foot on the University of Mississippi...

In the heat of July, the chill of Oxford winter seems like a distant memory. As the calendar proceeds on its inevitable march, my early morning walks to class from Pittman Hall fade further into memory. There’s something unifying about...

Tomorrow marks one year since the former Mississippi state flag was retired. It is also day five of Mississippi Today’s five-part series highlighting Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip Gunn’s work to change the flag. While his work was very...