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Now the rest of us know what the "J" in Donald J. Trump really stands for. Christian nationalists and some evangelical denominations made that...
Recently on the opinion page of this newspaper, I shared truth and a vision of how your public television station is navigating uncertain times.
BUDAPEST—Last Saturday, the day before the election in Hungary, I went to Puspokladany, a run-down town of about 16,000 in the northeastern part of...
Recently on the opinion page of this newspaper, I shared truth and a vision of how your public television station is navigating uncertain times.
Favorite Columnist: I'm in favor of cable median barriers and hope there is one in place should I ever go flying off the Interstate. But are those...
Just a few years ago, ransomware followed a relatively simple script. Criminals broke into a company's network, locked up its data through encryption...
I read through nearly 500 comments on a story posted on Facebook about the funding of the EFA component (aka vouchers) of the LEARNS program.
After his years in the public spotlight that include more than a decade as a politician, armchair Trumpologists who have closely observed President...
When the people of Hungary decided clearly to vote out their right-wing populist leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, he had the decency to concede...
After 19 years in the classroom, I still feel the same pull I did as a child watching my Aunt Becky teach. I wanted to do what she did and help...
There were voices that contributed to my education that came not from teachers nor ministers nor kin. They were voices that spoke to our family every...
The general consensus is that President Donald Trump's social media post of himself dressed in robes, after a busy weekend in which he blasted Pope...
"The easiest method for the United States to reopen Hormuz," I wrote last Tuesday, "is to start seizing tankers carrying Iranian crude once they reach...
When I was in grade school back in the 1800s, they fed us cheeseburgers extended to the frontiers of human palatability by hefty amounts of what some...
The United States must be growing and prosperous at home and strong and secure in the face of the many security threats facing us abroad. The former...
A war for the soul of the world is happening now that's straight out of the Bible--and I'm not just talking about the Middle East.
Watching the enthusiasm, especially among people younger than me, over the Artemis II mission around the moon recalled that the last men to land on...
Agriculture remains the cornerstone of Arkansas' economy. Poultry, cattle, row crops and the farming operations that sustain communities across our...
New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is aiming to reduce car insurance premiums in her state--now averaging more than $4,000--by targeting staged...
Calion Road once connected south Arkansas to the early French settlements on the Ouachita River originally called Scarborough's Landing, then later...
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
The original text on the group thread read "Good morning fellas." The originator aspired to gather a number of us who were, and remain, good friends...
What must it be like, we wonder, to be an American child in the era of President Donald Trump?
A short while ago, the president of the United States, the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense addressed leaders from this hemisphere at...
Charles Gordon Newman's origins are mysterious. We know that he was born in Richmond, Va., in 1840. The names of his parents can't be found. Searches...
Amid all the alarming and unhinged comments of the president of the United States in recent days threatening Iran with genocide--remarks beyond even...
Like most Americans, we were relieved that President Donald Trump's potentially cataclysmic pledge to kill off Iranian civilization Tuesday night did...
President Donald Trump is giving old people a bad name.
Greetings Wise One: Does your MUTCD cover speed limits on city streets? When North Rodney Parham between Green Mountain/Hinson and Pleasant Forest was...
In his "Antisemitism again" April 4 op-ed piece, Robert Steinbuch describes Middle Eastern University of Arkansas professor Mohja Kahf as displaying...
At the national level, crime is down all across America. If President Donald Trump wasn't wrecking campaign promises in other areas, he might be...
A first reading of Carlton Wing's "Still on mission" on Voices April 2 appears positive. Subsequent, more careful readings, looking for intentions and...
Given the charged and at times apocalyptic rhetoric coming from the White House in recent days--particularly President Donald Trump's warning that a...
Since the start of the year, three problems have created major political traumas for President Donald Trump, helping to lower his already lagging job...
"Public school is broken" is something I hear often. I would not call it broken. I would call it standardized.
When a leader speaks of a civilization dying "tonight," the weight of those words does not fall lightly. Language at that level does more than...
We've seen this pattern before.
More than a month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, ordinary Iranians are living under a double siege: external bombardment and internal...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening offered the nation a defense of America's offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will...
Kristi Noem is gone. Pam Bondi is out. If there's going to be a fall guy for our ill-starred regime-change operation in Iran, it's likely to be Pete...
Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call "lone wolves."...
Pam Bondi was loyal, turning the U.S. Department of Justice into a tool for partisan and political retribution, just as President Donald Trump...
Why do the U.S. Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth want to violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment regarding the freedom of the...
About 10 days ago, another made-for-TV Cabinet meeting was held. If you've not seen news clips of these events, they're an orgy of unbridled flattery...
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When I began working as a doula, most people in Arkansas had never even heard the word. Today, we are having statewide conversations about how doulas...