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American liberals have often looked to France for a model of what they would like to see in the United States: universal health care; low-cost day...
Most Arkansans will never see a sprinkler head open or a kitchen hood system discharge. That's the point. Most Arkansas businesses have fire...
This fall, like every other, I try to game the flu season. My goal, always, is to get my vaccine at just the right moment: before the first cases pop...
The federal government managed to become even more fiscally inept during the past fiscal year, running a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to...
If you watch as many of President Donald Trump's rally speeches as I do--and I watch them at levels no one has ever seen before--you begin to hear the...
Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse.
In 2018, I stopped by the Johnson County (Ark.) Historical Association to visit with retired physician Don Pennington, a friend who volunteered to...
If politics was logical, Republicans should be leading in the polls and looking forward to maintaining, even expanding, their congressional...
Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the "shame and anger" described by President Emmanuel Macron after a...
Here in Arkansas, fall means football, community gatherings, and looking ahead to the holidays. Many families are considering what they can do to stay...
With a month to go until midterm elections, Democrats find themselves in better shape than expected. Odds are, they'll win the House and perhaps a...
Bret Stephens: Americans are growing hostile to artificial intelligence. I've warned that letting AI write for you can be brain-eating,...
In March of last year, a beacon of democracy for much of the world for the last 83 years, the storied Voice of America radio network, went dark. It...
Friends outside Arkansas often take pity on me for feeling the way I do about President Donald Trump and living here. I appreciate it. I've lost track...
Nearly two years into his role as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth has yet to leave his old job as a Fox News host behind. His recent "State of the...
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I know what you may be thinking: This guy is about to rave and bluster about what an injustice it is that the Hogs do not play a few of their games at...
When an Arkansan hears the words, "You have cancer," the last thing that patient wants to hear next is, "You need to leave the state for care."
In Act I, Scene V of "Hamlet," the ghost of Prince Hamlet's father informs him that Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and his father's brother, murdered...
Will Americans survive the feverish doomsaying that is getting louder each day?
October is National Energy Awareness Month, and according to WalletHub, 58 percent of Americans are saying "Protecting the Environment" should be...
In health care, distance is measured in more than miles. It can be measured in the months someone waits to see a specialist, or in the manageable...
Last week, President Donald Trump shocked the world by easing sanctions on Russia to allow the sale of Russian diesel fuel to the United States and...
Dear Mahatma: On Interstate 40 from Little Rock to West Memphis, all the rest area facilities are closed. For those of us who have to go on the go,...
After a five-and-a-half-year absence, Tom Cotton has recently discovered a state called Arkansas. Pretending that he cares about Arkansas and the...
If the forecast is right, it's a lot cooler today than it was earlier in the week.
In a podcast interview dated Sept. 29 of this year, Vice President JD Vance offered the following argument to justify mass deportations:
Football fans at all levels are familiar with the term "bulletin board material," which are words or actions that can get an opponent riled up before...
Number 19 on the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2005 list of the 100 greatest American movie quotes is, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take...
An embattled President Donald Trump is undertaking a risky gambit raiding the home of controversial Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar just seven weeks...
For at least the second time this year, Marco Rubio delivered a stirring speech championing the virtues of Western civilization--"a civilization," he...
One night in 2005, I sat in a church in Texas listening to a lecture by Helen Prejean, the prominent opponent of capital punishment. Her book about...
As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal...
The swamp may not be drained, but it's shrinking.
"Nobody knows anything," the screenwriter William Goldman famously said of the movie business. Much the same can be said today for artificial...
Each October, it is encouraging to see so many organizations, communities, and Arkansans find ways to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From...
With the midterms 23 days away, football season in high gear and movies in theaters, today's column is a hodgepodge of politics, sports and...
On Sept. 16, the Senate held its first hearing on the dismal state of federally funded menopause research and vast gaps in treatment and care. Within...
Elon Musk has been a mixed blessing for Wall Street. His mega-financing deals have generated lucrative investment-banking fees while reshaping global...
There is a song that came out of west Texas several decades ago. The refrain from an oilman is "All you need to really succeed in life is one good...
Earlier this year, when we as a country were collectively cheering for the astronauts on NASA's Artemis II lunar mission, the term "moon joy" became a...
On Sept. 19, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform a poll in which followers could vote on renaming the general concept of...
It's been three years since Hamas terrorists breached Israel's border and launched a savage assault, killing, burning, kidnapping and raping innocent...
I went to bed at a decent hour Monday night and got a pretty good sleep.
We live in a time when individuality and personal fulfillment are highly valued. We are encouraged to prioritize our own happiness, choose ourselves,...
Dear Mahatma: I am not even going to start — well, I just did — on the stupidity of me paying $200 extra per year for my Chevy Bolt EV renewal....
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
Getting into Cornell University is no easy feat. Prospective applicants must start their application planning between the eighth and ninth grades,...
There's a phrase I sometimes hear from teachers that gives me pause: "I just meet my kids where they are." Now, there's nothing wrong with giving...
Everywhere we go these days, people are discussing energy costs and security. A divisive national debate and international conflicts aside, it's...