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A Portrait of a Modern Day Union Man on the Picket Line

Union leader Bryan Kelly and more than 1,000 other coal miners in Alabama are picketing hedge-fund ownership over broken promises and cut pay. It’s another chapter in a long history of miners who pioneered the art of the strike — to the benefit of all

For 45 Years, ‘Deacon Blues’ Has Been Trolling Alabama Crimson Tide Fans

The Steely Dan hit might sound like it’s complimenting the school, which is once again playing for the college football championship. But the rest of us know better

The Snake-Handling Minister’s Venomous Murder Plot

The new HBO doc ‘Alabama Snake’ is the fascinating story of Glenn Summerford, a Pentecostal minister who wanted his wife dead — and the enduring allure of the bizarre crime that followed