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Last week the Los Angeles Dodgers, having found the experience of winning back-to-back World Series insufficiently reassuring, acquired Tarik Skubal...
I'm in Monticello for a conference when I decide to make the short drive south through the pine forests to Crossett. That's because Crossett is home...
There are more than 100 types of cancer, each recognized by the organs or tissues they affect with unique characteristics, behaviors, and treatments....
Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist who's leading in the polls to be the Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor, is now best known...
Dear Guru of 1B: For two years the right-lane shoulder (about 10 feet long) of Interstate 30, eastbound about 200 yards prior to exit 117, appears to...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Luminark Global’s co-founder, Mike Steely, about the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and how it...
This is a good news-bad news story.
When we unveiled the 30 Crossing Park Master Plan at the Downtown Food Truck Festival last year, the overwhelming response was, "This is amazing! How...
Some luminaries are way ahead of their time. Economist Milton Friedman, who died 20 years ago and was a Nobel laureate 50 years ago, was not only...
Three years ago, state Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) sponsored Act 372 of 2023--the Library Law--which:
Apple Music, Netflix and Spotify have become astonishingly good at predicting what we’ll enjoy next. But recommendation isn’t the same thing as...
The question running through all three is not whether the music is "authentic" -- a word that usually conceals more than it reveals -- but whether the...
There is a certain rhythm to life in Arkansas that you can only truly understand if you've spent a balmy July evening sitting on a porch, watching...
It appears that Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, will be confirmed as attorney general, formalizing the Justice Department's rebranding as a...
Over the past year, actions on the part of the president and his administration run the gambit from unconstitutional to illegal (as determined in...
As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs--Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric...
Ronald Reagan promoted his philosophy of "trust but verify" in negotiations with the Soviets. President Donald Trump would be wise to apply the same...
This column isn't so much an argument as it is a plea: Don't use artificial intelligence to help you write. Never let AI do your writing for you.
The state Constitution vests the ultimate power in the people. The state's motto is that the people rule.
Neither of Arkansas' two U.S. senators -- John Boozman and Tom Cotton -- are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend Todd Blanche...
Yale University seems like an unlikely place for one of the nation's top forestry schools. But the congressman for Arkansas' 4th District, U.S. Rep....
When artificial intelligence has made such inroads, how are we in the media supposed to react to it?
The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together--sellers, buyers, go-betweens--with different preferences,...
It is rare for me to support anything inserting more government into our lives. I'm now looking at one of these exceptions: The AM Radio in Every...
It was merely the finest example of good governing politics and policy that I'd seen in decades. And it happened in Arkansas. And soon it will be...
I have decided to fix a few things.
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the blockbuster that launched a million takes. The interpretations crowd my social media feed like Agamemnon's...
President Trump and members of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the graveyard, engaging in wishful thinking, and/or deluding...
James Crawford’s “The Vanishing Earth” contends that extraction has become more than an economic activity—it has become the defining habit of...
Other than the issue of immigration, nothing has gained more national and international attention than the Trump administration's employment of...
The campaign against Iran has turned into a debacle. The reasons are simple and obvious: President Donald Trump assumed the Iranians would surrender...
Arkansas faces a civic health challenge, but it also has a powerful resource capable of creating change: its young people. According to the 2023...
Before delving into today's important subject--which is that conservatives seem hellbent as a matter of principle on not protecting us if we get...
The words from this president's mouth rarely cease to amaze, and Monday was no exception. In Michigan, he said, "I'm not going to knock your parents,...
In a 1987 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Ellen Compton wrote about the Bradley County seat of Warren.
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I am currently a plaintiff in two court cases that challenge the LEARNS Act, and am not at liberty to argue those cases in this forum. However, there...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kanisha Hamilton became an expert on sex trafficking in the most unfortunate way, beginning at age 12. So whenever she heard talk...
The other day I was merrily scouring the Internet for journals with open calls for creative writing submissions and found an e-journal where an...
I've resisted writing about the price of crude oil as long as I can.
Every week when I join others in my fitness club's energetic kickboxing classes, I think of my mother.
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically ... No, the only tired I was, was...
Like Gustave Flaubert, I believe there are no true synonyms. Every word occupies its own territory of meaning. Lonesome and lonely are not...
Helena-West Helena artist Jámin Crawford is the winner of the annual King Biscuit Blues Festival poster contest.
Launched as a 24-hour music video experiment, MTV became the loudest voice of a generation — and quietly reshaped fashion, fame and the way we...
In Arkansas, when national rankings arrive, we traditionally console ourselves by saying, "Thank God for Mississippi." It isn't generous, but neither...
What's now Ashley County was formed from parts of Chicot, Drew and Union counties in November 1848. It was Arkansas' 53rd county and is the...
There are very few days that drive me away from my front porch. Our evening ritual almost always includes an informal family meeting there as we...
In April, the attorney Norm Eisen was on his way into the Supreme Court as part of the legal team fighting to preserve birthright citizenship when he...