Opinion

Nearing the 2020 federal elections, Mississippi’s first congressional district has stepped into the spotlight. Antonia Eliason, an associate law professor at Ole Miss and a Democratic Socialist, is running for Congress. Trent Kelly, the Republican incumbent, is running against her....

Recently, Aramark acquired the on-demand food service Starship to deliver food to students on campuses across the country. The service works by students ordering food on an app, then  on-campus restaurants prepare the food and deliver it to the student....

The new year brought a new legislative session to Jackson. It also brought new estimates from the Census Bureau on Mississippi’s population.  For the fourth time in five years, Mississippi lost population. The state’s population declined by 4,871 people, the...

People who want the Confederate monument to remain in the Circle often suggest that it is an emblem of free speech and a reminder of history’s lessons. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees (IHL) has delayed the...

I recently went to see the play “1984” put on by the Aquila Theatre company of New York. It is a  fantastic and moving play depicting a dystopian society where “Big Brother” is always watching, and I couldn’t help but...

It still hasn’t hit me.  Ten years ago, if someone would have told me I would be the University of Mississippi’s 27th Rhodes Scholar or its first black female Rhodes Scholar, I would have told them that they had a...

Recently, the university announced plans to establish the Open Society Initiative, an institute intended to address racial reconciliation in Oxford. However, we already had one of those — the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation — which continues to play...

With four seconds left in the Egg Bowl, wide receiver Elijah Moore caught a two-yard touchdown pass, making the score 21-20. He then celebrated in the end zone, miming the act of a dog urinating on a fire hydrant. This...

The Egg Bowl left Rebel Nation angry but not surprised, considering it had been one of five losses this season that was a scoring drive away from victory. Now that Ole Miss’ losing football season has come to a close,...