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Sixty years after ‘Blonde on Blonde,’ Bob Dylan’s masterpiece is harder to recognize as revolutionary precisely because it changed the language...
Hearing is not the same as listening.
"He's not quitting."
I had a dream I was swimming in dark water, trying to surface but unable to find the break as my breath ran out. I awakened and, naturally, looked at...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death sparked vicious vitriol from liberals and conspiracy theories from conservatives as Democrats looked...
Current events in Iran have largely pushed the Israeli-Hamas conflict out of the news cycle. But a recent incident in Gaza reinforces how Hamas...
Right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7. He's not sure how many deaths he's been...
Dear Mahatma: I see lots of clips on social media of bad driving behaviors captured on in-vehicle cameras. Pros and cons? I recently added one after...
Last spring my usually peaceful campus faced controversies likely to drop us in the annual Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) free...
As this semiquincentennial summer celebration continues, our founding history is front and center. We remember what happened in 1776 because it set...
The legendary Bayeux Tapestry detailing William of Normandy's 1066 conquest of England was embroidered, most likely by nuns, in England about 1,000...
I received a lot of positive feedback about my vigilance in recently covering--again--progressive resistance to quashing the blatant discrimination of...
This week marked the first day I returned to the studio at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Fayetteville to record a vodcast since my...
A guest column in this paper the other day under the byline of assorted serious Arkansas people--including a former state Supreme Court justice and a...
Imagine, if you will, a desert town in the southwest whose agricultural water supply flows from a reservoir miles away. Every year water is released...
We were glad to see the photo of a smiling Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. The 84-year-old McConnell revealed Sunday...
In the summer of 2015, Donald Trump gave out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number at a campaign rally, leading to a flood of calls. The South Carolina...
It was with a heavy heart that, on May 24, I proclaimed after due deliberation that my president was a dictator--outright, no longer merely the...
The baby boom from 1946 to 1964 kept the ratio of workers paying Social Security taxes to the number of retirees receiving Social Security benefits at...
Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to "Scholarship Granting...
It's difficult to comprehend the fact that it has been 30 years. July 15, 1996, was one of the most memorable days of my life. I remember it as if it...
Most of my time on the job is spent editing letters and columns, reading proofs, writing, and combing through submissions. I'll admit I don't always...
There were the usual weekend outrages with Donald Trump. They were hardly worthy of note. But one of them was local this time, so let's look at that.
Argument is part of the pleasure of baseball. No game has ever been more thoroughly measured. We know launch angles, spin rates, exit velocities,...
There's a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that studies show is more closely...
People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law, and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and...
A few recent baseball books arriving this month approach the game from entirely different directions, yet they seem animated by the same conviction...
Inflation is back in the news, with the most recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) reading more than double the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target. In...
Let us begin by dispensing with some persistent intellectual errors.
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order this spring to speed up FDA approval of psychedelic treatments, he echoed a push for healing...
After the almost continuous weeks-long celebrations of our country's first 250 years, I am reflecting on why being an American, which I have taken for...
Waking up from a 30-minute nap on a recent Saturday afternoon, I knew where I was. But I didn't know where I'd been.
This spring, I received my students' scores on the Arkansas Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (ATLAS) a few days after they took the test. We used to...
Most of us have heard the 1500s-era English proverb that a person is "penny wise and pound foolish." Although it can be interpreted differently, in...
We were walking home west along the River Trail in North Little Rock after Lucinda Williams closed out the Arkansas Folklife Festival a couple of...
Politicians are always running their last race, particularly if it was a loss. They want to undo everything that worked against them last time. That,...
On Monday I received a very nice but somewhat shocking email from a reader. I wasn't shocked because I got an email, but because the reader assumed...
Only about 180 miles of the 1,290-mile Red River touches or passes through Arkansas. The river, however, has had a huge impact on the southwest part...
A secret shopper survey conducted by researchers at Yale University and published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers...
As an educator, my responsibility is simple: Prepare students for the world they will inherit.
Full disclosure: I am currently a plaintiff in two court cases that challenge the LEARNS Act, and not at liberty to argue those specific cases in this...
Netflix’s documentary on Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert reveals a complicated story that isn’t really about tennis.
For years critics treated self-published books as easy rejects. Lately, a handful of independent authors have reminded me that the best reason to...
A funny weird thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
Historian Ben Johnson of El Dorado has given far more thought than most Arkansans to where this state has been in the past 100 years and where it's...
I will be the first to admit that I am not the person you come to for expert soccer analysis.
It used to be considered something of a tawdry question, although it could be flattering as well: "What's your number?" Nowadays, your inquisitor is...
The Fourth of July has come and gone, and for many families, summer has reached its sweet spot. The pools are open. The bikes are out. Library reading...
Graham Platner's campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, has become a shameful catastrophe. What's...
Dear Mahatma: I enclose images of the Pothole with A Cone. This, as these images document, occupies much of the north crosswalk area of the...
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