New year, new habits. Trying reading? Definitely a useful one; books can be one of the easiest ways to expand your ideas. But with classes, clubs and work starting up again, how can any regular Aggie...

We college students are no strangers to rising costs — whether that be tuition, rent or gas. With the national inflation rate increasing to over 7% over the past year, the last thing we need is more...

When people think of national security, the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t pre-K education. What military leaders like myself understand is that we can’t have a strong military...

Editor’s note: Nathan Varnell is a former editor for The Battalion and a former student, Class of 2023. It’s 5:20 a.m. Margarita Rivera rolls out of bed, cleans up and gets moving around the...

Nearly 50 years after the last military helicopter departed off the roof of the U.S. Embassy building in Saigon, Vietnam, the world witnessed yet another heart-wrenching and rambunctious American withdrawal,...

The notion of “life begins at conception” is a loaded statement championed by conservatives to provide the pretense that biology is somehow on their side. Oftentimes, this statement is made...

How can one not be disturbed, even depressed, by the recent mass shooting in Uvalde? No words can accurately describe our collective shock and revulsion. So, the practical questions that follow for our...

“It could have been worse.” Gov. Greg Abbott had the gall to utter these words at his May 25 press conference in Uvalde, a day following the murder of 19 children and two brave teachers. It...

If it is true, as Donald Rumsfeld once warned, that “weakness is provocative,” the left should take the news of Roe v. Wade’s imminent demise as an opportunity to assess just...

Last year, I left the classroom to pursue my Ph.D. in educational psychology. The vitriol toward teachers and public education was bad in 2021, and in 2022 it’s gotten worse. If I were in a Texas...

When it comes to teaching, how you teach is just as important as what you teach. Most importantly, curriculum doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have a relationship with the students. It doesn’t...