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Last week after my column about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, one of the comments to the online edition summed up one of...
Arkansas' health challenges are not a matter of perception. They are visible in the numbers.
For more than a century, the American Bar Association has functioned as the de facto national gatekeeper of legal education. Its accreditation...
Netflix’s anthology reinvention ‘Beef’ trades the first season’s operatic chaos for something sharper and more unsettling.
The worthwhile music bio-pics understand that musicians are often not reliable narrators of their own lives. Neither are managers, estates, fans,...
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The front-page article in this newspaper Tuesday on the investigation into North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick's interaction with North Little Rock...
It's spring planting season for farmers like me, but this year, it's also a time of growing concern.
When President Donald Trump visits Beijing this week, he should have the satisfaction of knowing that time, in the long run, is on America's side....
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My dream to travel to the United States was fulfilled when I was still a young man. America was, at the time, the greatest place of opportunities,...
The abortion issue won't go away, as so many politicians wish it would. It persists because the discussion and debate are about our very existence:...
The Arkansas data-center boom has begun. And despite what alarmists say on social media, energy providers have plans in place to supply the power...
What the Virginia Supreme Court essentially said last week is that Democrats in Virginia got in too big a hurry to show they could play unfair,...
Our dogs are better known than we are.
The headline in The Washington Post said: "Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds." The sub headline read: "Democrats now hold...
Douglas Stuart’s “John of John” explores inheritance, repression and the burdens fathers pass to sons, while Alice Hoffman’s “The Best Dog...
Arkansans are struggling with higher gas prices. The average fuel price in the state is $3.95 a gallon. A year ago, it was $2.76 a gallon. If...
I'm not sure there are many areas of American politics than are better off now than they were 17 months ago, but one highly welcome improvement has...
Skilled Nursing Week, May 10-16, is a time to celebrate the dedicated professionals who care for Arkansas' most vulnerable residents. But it's also a...
Gov. Sarah Sanders got the Legislature to pass a bill last week to reduce the state's top income-tax rate from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent. That will...
Arkansas education issues are like Taylor Sheridan's "Yellowstone" series and its prequels. Same family. Same story. Basically the same struggles...
Schools across the U.S. have ramped up cell phone bans over the last few years. Now researchers are testing the effects, and the results are mixed.
In the race to build data centers across Arkansas, the Google campus at West Memphis has taken the lead. Google is already hiring electrical engineers...
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I went into Dollar General last week to get dog food. Our custom, since acquiring an excessive number of dogs, has been to pick up five or so 50-pound...
The train ride from Bristol, Va., to Lynchburg, Va., in nice passenger cars "atoned somewhat for our bad treatment coming through the mountains in...
Memory is like a pomegranate layered and compacted in segments redolently rich. Each kernel is attached with its own umbilical cord. Place is also...
In the next 20 years it is likely that today's routine lifestyles will change dramatically, whether we like it or not. It will be a result of climate...
Mrs. C was in a tizzy. J, her daughter, called to tell me that her mom wanted to talk to me about some legal matter that was on her mind.
As a banker, I spend a lot of time thinking about numbers--interest rates, balance sheets, and economic forecasts. But as a father of two daughters, I...
We thought about driving to Mississippi last week to meet my 89-year-old mother and her posse--Aunt Lois and Uncle Ken, and Paula and Gerald, who...
Once upon a time, public health wasn't such a dice roll. We took it for granted that our neighbors were all good citizens who got vaccinations to help...
While conventional wisdom might have Ringo as underrated rock drummer and a decent bloke, he was also perhaps the wisest and most grounded member of...
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In a series of recent columns about southeast Arkansas, I've stated that the two most significant institutions in the region are the University of...
I was 35 years old in June 2005, and a newly minted principal who suddenly felt the unique weight of leading a storied educational institution. The...
President Donald Trump charged into this destructive crusade without a word to Congress, without a clear rationale for why he was doing it, and, now,...
There is a moment toward the end of the "Devil Wears Prada 2" when the icy, imperious fashion editor Miranda Priestly, played by the incomparable...
Dear Mahatma: My husband and I were traveling south on Interstate 430 the other day when we overtook a Jeep towing a trailer. My husband immediately...
The National Forest Service was created by GOP President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. My involvement with the NFS dates to 1983 when I was part of a...
I've often said the "Black vote" shouldn't be a bloc. Yet it is. Blacks are individuals who--theoretically--should be splintered ideologically like...
In "The Glory and the Dream," William Manchester describes the Great Depression: "Because poverty was considered shameful, people tried to conceal...
The University of Arkansas-Little Rock's William H. Bowen School of Law began as UA-Fayetteville's night division (yes, in Little Rock) in 1965. A...
Season two of ‘Criminal Record’ turns the crime procedural inside out, asking not what happened but who gets to decide what counts.
He wrote great country songs and lived the mythology. He also made records that many listeners still find indefensible. Any honest obituary has to...
Supporters of saving PBS programming on state public television in Arkansas should beware.
Legendary New York Yankees manager Yogi Berra coined the phrase, "It's déjà vu all over again." And no statement is more descriptive of yet another...
We don't need a study to know that the Internet is awash in propaganda, AI slop, and outright lies.
Need some new wheels? You can buy a new 2026 Jaecoo J5 compact SUV for the equivalent of just $18,400--out the door, all fees and taxes included and...