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"Legislative privilege" says what it means. It is immunity for state legislators from being forced to reveal private conversations during...
Dave Marsh, who died Friday at 76, belonged to a generation of rock critics who believed records mattered enough to fight over with the moral...
Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married.
Richard Russo’s “Under the Falls” turns his familiar territory of wounded men and declining towns into a brisk, dark literary thriller.
Nostalgia grows because it is fed by age. The older I get, the more I look back on the movies I watched, the albums I listened to and the books I read...
Last year, mine was one of many farming operations to close in the state of Arkansas. I made the heartbreaking decision to close to protect my...
The surprise defeat of a far-left fringe Democrat in Wisconsin could signal that socialists have finally jumped the shark, paving the way for more...
President Donald Trump's chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to...
Monticello was known as a center for education in south Arkansas long before what's now the University of Arkansas at Monticello held its first...
To you your father should be as a god
It was 1966 and already hot in Little Rock in early May about the time Arthur Stanley Deras of Hamtramck, Mich., pulled into the parking lot at...
I carry a souvenir-sized wooden baseball bat when I walk my two small dogs. It's not a real weapon; if I ever swung it with any force, it would likely...
A job is about more than a paycheck. Work gives people the ability to provide for their families, contribute to their communities, and build a future...
I'm fortunate to be included in electronic distribution lists with thoughtful individuals from every corner of this country and beyond our shores....
As I sat my desk recently, considering my next column, my eyes fixed on one of several photographs hanging on the wall. It's of me as president of the...
I have never been much of a dancer. I don't think it has much to do with growing up Southern Baptist, although in that tradition it used to be frowned...
Paul Simon's 1986 album "Graceland" is approaching its 40th anniversary. It stands today as the magnum opus of an artist whose work appears many times...
Until recently, Jason Arday was a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge University, where he was celebrated as its youngest Black...
Years ago while trying to figure out what to do with my next century, I tried to help a budding tech company get off the ground. In a nutshell, they...
I asked Carlton Wing if he had any reply to the guest column in this paper from former first ladies Barbara Pryor and Gay White. It called for...
Perry County native Shawn Camp was among the new members named to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame last week. He will be inducted during a...
Hollywood used to give us ballplayers, golfers, boxers and hockey goons. Since it won’t make those movies anymore, here are the sequels it owes us.
Jason A. Ney’s “Richard Fleischer: Journeyman” makes the case for a versatile director who spent his career in the shadow of his brilliant...
Anyone can accuse anyone of anything. We ought to admit that before the terrible details begin working on us and we find ourselves certain of things...
From the 1880s through the 1920s, there was a period of Arkansas history known as the Big Cut. Out-of-state investors came to Arkansas to harvest the...
"I don't think it would age like fine wine, but for the sake of mankind, someone needs to drink it."
Two key questions are shaping up in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, and both center on Abdul El-Sayed's embrace of accused antisemitic Internet...
Faced with soaring deficits, an aging population, a teetering pension system, unsustainable health-care obligations, $1 trillion in annual interest...
Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to...
Dear Mahatma: The rest stop on U.S. 67 north of Corning near the Missouri state line has recently closed. This seems unreasonable. The new highway...
There is an issue that deeply concerns me which is at the forefront of many discussions in America today.
Jonesboro was Capital City for the Day on Tuesday. It's a neat deal, where the governor brings her entire cabinet to town for various events like...
Who knew motherhood would require so much standing in line?
Movies are back!
Last Sunday, Barbara Pryor and Gay White, first ladies of Arkansas from 1975-1979 and from 1981-1983, respectively, in a guest column here asked...
“Furious” is loosely based on Bob Rafelson’s entertaining 1987 thriller “Black Widow,” in which Debra Winger plays a federal investigator...
I am sitting in an exam room at Baptist Health-Fort Smith with my mother and brother. It is noon; our appointment was at 8 a.m. We left the FFF Ranch...
I was wondering if the state's Republican congressmen, who helped give us the big, ugly bill that made steep cuts in the state's health-care...
I've been watching the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial like a lot of you probably have, and I won't pretend I haven't been feeling the weight of...
If you aren't among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest growing sport in America, watch "The Dink" on Apple TV to get a glimpse of what...
There's no crying in kowtowing to Donald Trump. Or there shouldn't be. If you're going to kowtow, then at least be a strong-voiced adult about it.
Consider this an apology.
In south Arkansas, the timber industry remains king, though that sector of the economy has fallen on hard times in recent years. During the next...
Sen. Rand Paul is a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist, but he has an unhealthy obsession with Dr. Anthony Fauci. He now has rigged a ridiculous...
President Donald Trump's proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever implemented or not, are yet another affront to...
These days, returning to the classroom seems to involve more homework for parents than for students.
On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote to the U.S. CEOs of seven major oil companies, accusing them of "profiteering" from the war in Iran and...
When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit: The Beatles), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the...
Bernie Sanders, the guru of modern-day Democratic socialism in America--having been socialist when socialism wasn't cool--explained it well enough in...
Last Wednesday morning my inbox looked like a graduate seminar in political prediction.
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