If they can’t be motivated this year they can’t be motivated.

“We’re elated. It is really good news for once.”

It may sound impossible. But then, all big dreams do.

The issue today is dumber than Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s flying furry conspiracy theories.

There are unexpected, maybe even inexplicable things that drag us kicking and screaming into a better place, a better mood.

“What if, God forbid, they don’t allow them to stay and they send them back? How am I gonna be able to provide for my younger brothers?"

Those of us who were born that year were young enough to see a new world, old enough to feel, if not experience the old one.

The loaded headline on the opinion piece read “Auburn is getting a new mosque: Tommy Tuberville warned us to pay attention.”

"Get out of here, you little red menace!"

The AI bots and billionaires of course beg to differ.

“We have to fight for it like it’s our backyard."

This is what they call in the football business “bulletin board material.”

The markers intended to tell the story of a towering civil rights figure are tattered, peeling, unreadable. Unforgettable, for all the wrong reasons.

I don't want to jinx it.

You’d be hard pressed to pick your favorite scandal.

It is harder to celebrate together because politicians, parties, influencers and family members tell so many they are unAmerican because of the way they pursue happiness.

Artificial intelligence can’t make something as beautiful as the drawings you scrawl on scrap paper with purple crayons.

“It's critical that we use this, and now.”

Shoot me, he asks, after a quarter century on Alabama’s death row. All it would take is five shooters, five rifles, one of them loaded with blanks.

A Q&A with columnist John Archibald and Bryan Stevenson, executive director of EJI and bestselling writer of "Just Mercy."