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Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler allegedly said that "a democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they...
I walked downstairs last week wearing a navy blazer and a tie.
When police in Salem, Ohio, received a call for assistance for an injured cat, they couldn't have been prepared for what they found. The cat had been...
A recent NBC news report described Sadie, a happy, healthy 15-year-old who had dreams of becoming a lawyer or veterinarian. She had survived her...
Last week the state Legislature lost to unexpected resignation its go-to guy, its Mr. Fix-It, its nearest thing in this zany modern incarnation to an...
Let's jump right in. Artificial intelligence (AI) is here for good. It's burst back on to the front page, but the worry isn't about displacing...
It took them a few tries, but a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has now correctly ended President Donald Trump's cynical and partisan effort to...
I can't remember the first time I met John T. Edge. I do remember that I had heard about an organization at Ole Miss called the Southern Foodways...
With the midterm elections ahead, we could see a record number of aspirants for president from both parties, considering that neither party seems to...
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I would quit social media if it weren't for the benefits derived from connecting with readers and like-minded folks I never would meet otherwise. And...
In 2018, I stopped by the Johnson County (Ark.) Historical Association to visit with retired physician Don Pennington, a friend who volunteered to...
Business is booming for the private prison business, thanks in large part to an administration that has ushered cruelty into fashion and also provided...
Despite rumors of the genre's demise, some of the most watchable series streaming today are Westerns. Among them are "Dark Winds," in which Lt. Joe...
When I was 7, my father gave me a cut-down 7-iron and showed me how to wrap my hands around the hard leather grip and interlock the little finger of...
Perhaps you've heard that rock legends Metallica are bringing their mammoth M72 World Tour to Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville on May 26. And maybe...
The Constitution of the United States of America may be the most enthusiastically defended unread document in history, aside from the terms-of-service...
During his nine years as general manager of the Arkansas Travelers, former big league player Carl Sawatski maintained a close relationship with the...
I am writing this not simply as a teacher, but as someone who has the privilege of watching students grow every day. I see their excitement when they...
Three heavyweights in AI development recently called for a significant slowdown in the technology, an unusual consensus among competitors that is...
President Donald Trump's offer at his midterm convention here sounded suspiciously like vote-buying, and we hope most Americans were offended by it. A...
The thing I've found most shocking about Donald Trump's second presidency is not the epic grift, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement paramilitary...
When an old high school friend reached out to me through Classmates.com, I had a fascinating discussion, thanks to input from Google Gemini.
Dear Mahatma: Curious as to why the speed limit has changed from 35 mph to 25 mph on Markham Street curve near the Arkansas School for the Deaf and...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Maria Craig, chair of the Keep Little Rock Beautiful nonprofit, and Little Rock Sustainability Officer...
Becoming a veterinarian has been a dream of mine for years. But as someone who grew up in Arkansas, I always thought pursuing that dream might mean...
I have to admit not knowing much about American novelist, poet, essayist, and rural and agrarian advocate Wendell Berry until learning of his death a...
I don't pretend to know what Danielle Williamson and her husband felt when they learned that their five-month-old preborn child did not have a...
Job lost his animals, servants, and 10 children in a single afternoon. And then came the boils. Oh, the boils. He had done nothing to deserve it. That...
Tasjan, who will play Little Rock's White Water Tavern on Thursday, has never seemed particularly interested in remaining inside whatever box the...
"Five Questions" is an invitation to an articulate person to think out loud. "Get Over It, Underdog," Nashville singer-songwriter and guitarist Aaron...
Trump's lies serve
I am at the Grand Galvez, a hotel built on the beach in Galveston, Texas, in 1911, and recently restored. It is a study in old opulence. It felt upon...
They come nearly a week late. These tardy personal reflections on 9/11 a quarter-century ago were inspired by reading all those properly timed and...
Dear politicians,
The artificial intelligence-powered political future is here, and it's getting predictably ugly.
Creators who anguish over the consequences of their creations are nothing new. Alfred Nobel and dynamite, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb,...
Public-television debates among candidates for state and federal office in Arkansas are lightly watched and don't matter much, and have generally been...
Legendary Arkansas Gazette sportswriter Jim Bailey once had this to say about Ray Winder of the Arkansas Travelers: "Most of his teams lost big on the...
People could be excused if, while reading comments on my column last week, they thought they'd stumbled into the manosphere. I mean, the misogyny was...
At Republicans' recent midterm convention, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) began his remarks with his own version of a land acknowledgment.
In February 2026, the U.S. House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to...
The debate over precisely how criminal justice should be carried out is, and should be, never-ending. Remaining committed to the status quo assumes...
I called the Arkansas congressional delegation the "bland brigade" and opened the paper to see each of the six prove it.
She calls it "light" Parkinson's.
Are Social Security benefits too generous? Some fiscal hawks and classic conservatives say the answer is yes, and see the upcoming depletion of the...
The rapid backlash to data centers and artificial intelligence has taken many in the tech and finance worlds by surprise.
Republicans held a unique midterm combination rally/get-out-the-vote convention in Dallas earlier this month. The GOP hoped to raise enthusiasm (and...
Mark Lynas’ “Six Minutes to Winter” asks why we stopped worrying about nuclear war. Arkansans have particular reason to remember what can go wrong.