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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...
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...
Other than the issue of immigration, nothing has gained more national and international attention than the Trump administration's employment of...
Arkansas faces a civic health challenge, but it also has a powerful resource capable of creating change: its young people. According to the 2023...
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,...
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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.
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...
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...
Dear Mahatma: It's been quite some time since the Interstate 30 project was finished. Yet none of these lights have been turned back on. Would it be...
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are reflecting on two principles that are...
If cataclysmic warnings about LEARNS Act provisions seem to ring a bell, it's not your imagination. It's history, and you've heard it all before.
It starts with a persistent cough. Assuming it's another bout of seasonal allergies, we reach for antihistamines instead of making an appointment with...
Has the show contributed to the popularity of soccer in the States?
Reflecting on my first five years as chancellor of the University of Arkansas, I feel a profound sense of gratitude. I am grateful to the students and...
Pennsylvanians were well acquainted with John Fetterman's idiosyncrasies by the time he was elected to the U.S. Senate four years ago. No one had a...
Because Israel is routinely the victim of double standards--Will Zohran Mamdani ever make a personal cause of denouncing his native Uganda for...
It is one of the great paradoxes of our time: Americans have never been richer, or more negative about the economy.
Democrats attacked Elon Musk's DOGE initiative with unusual vigor, but who can doubt that a federal behemoth that spends $7 trillion annually has...
President Trump's performance at last Friday's retooled White House Correspondents' Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro...
For patients, receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel intimidating and overwhelming, especially for a rare cancer. July is Sarcoma and Bone Cancer...
Somewhere around the two-hour mark in JD Vance's nearly three-hour podcast interview last week with Joe Rogan, the pair got into a serious...
Last Saturday, I saw all three hours of Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron, among others. It was the...
"No mas, no mas "--Roberto Duran
A recent column defending LEARNS by Jacob Oliva, the state's secretary of education, coupled with a critical response by Perspective columnist Gwen...
When I think of tennis one name usually pops up. Folks my age in south Arkansas will recognize it immediately: Myron Schoffner.
The Heartland Whole Health Institute recently released its report on Arkansas' physician shortage, making the case for a graduate medical education...
A reader named Karl sent me a newspaper column that raged against data centers and artificial intelligence. He hoped I'd give him a different point of...
You know, or should know, that when Benjamin Franklin emerged from the last session of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked if that body had...
Will the nation's biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it's no sure thing.
Elon Musk is still mad about "The Odyssey."
Dear Mahatma: Did you know the most stolen highway signs in Arkansas are the ones going into Weiner on U.S. 49? -- Smart Guy
Priorities. Normal folks set them every day just to make it through the day.
Laws with good intentions leading to unintended bad consequences is American politics 101. There are lots of cases, but the one I want to single out...
We live in a technological age. We have access to information anytime and anywhere. When used properly, that technology brings people together in ways...
The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment, with candidates winning Democratic congressional primaries in New York and Colorado. Given...
Sir, I am 28 years old. Some of my friends who rent say that there is no such thing as a buyer's market, that it is not a good time to buy a house,...
If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York's one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter...
Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.
Last month's heat wave killed an estimated 440 people per day at its peak in England and Wales--more than 100 times the daily toll from road crashes...
Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain?
Societies, like individuals, can become sick. And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology.
During a recent visit to a Navy ship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly became angry after seeing sailors with facial hair. The Navy requires...
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when in 1849 he coined the phrase "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme...
A long time ago, when I worked for Arkansas' environmental agency, each year employees throughout state government looked forward to obtaining the...