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This is not about the book, which I have stopped reading because I pretty much knew all that already.
It's moments like the one we're in right now that help us figure out who we are.
The long Independence Day weekend gives us time to contemplate the state of our country after 250 years. For those who specialize in writing about...
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Rapid change is a defining feature of modern life: change in the ways we communicate, the ways we work, and even in who we think we and others are...
Twelve Ursuline nuns boarded the armed merchant ship Gironde on Feb. 22, 1727. Actually, they were hauled on board by a swing or cloth bag. A contrary...
James Arlius Ford was what one might call an ordinary man.
A decade or so ago, I learned of a story that seemed edifying, if not powerful. A private school determined that its physical plant was in need of...
From college, where I more or less stumbled into majoring in geology, I credit the good Lord for guiding me into what has been a fulfilling career....
Owners of new cars are accustomed to making visits to their dealerships when routine maintenance is needed. But "routine" isn't what it used to be.
Arkansas is lucky to have an unapologetic governor. In 2023, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Arkansas LEARNS to transform Arkansas' education...
Back in the days when people sent letters, I kept a correspondence file.
BENTONVILLE -- Every city is a palimpsest.
Last month I wrote about Arkansas native Jake Bell, the longtime Broadway stage manager and production manager who was celebrated during the 79th...
AMC’s ‘Dark Winds’ borrows the visual language of the classic Western while replacing myth with community and spectacle with lived experience.
The hardest stories are so ordinary that no one thinks to notice them.
What an honor it is to have space in this newspaper on July 4. Not just any July 4, but the one that marks the country as 250 years old. I sat with a...
Recently, Boyce and I took our daughter Julianna to Boston. She had been learning about the American Revolution in school and was over the moon about...
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I have clear memories of July 3, 1976. I was 16 years old and had decided earlier that year to concentrate on getting ready for football season rather...
Dear Mahatma: My grandson is about to take the driving test. I told him to make sure his old heap was up to safety regs. Which are what? -- Grandpa
Saturday is the 250th anniversary of an exceptional, world-changing event that's beyond our capability to fully comprehend.
As we celebrate our country's 250th anniversary, it seems fitting to remember our founding fathers were dreamers, attempting to create a foundation...
Perhaps the most evocative tune in America's patriotic repertoire, and certainly the most popular, is also among the least understood. Written by...
Because I operate as both a practicing attorney and a journalist, I refrain from writing in this column about my active cases in that constitutionally...
The point isn’t to identify one movie that towers above all the others. We no longer inhabit a movie culture dominated by a handful of obvious...
I am never far from my phone. Several years ago, my mother had a stroke, which jarred me into the reality of my parents' vulnerability.
You might have heard a common refrain about U.S. Rep. French Hill. It's that he knows President Donald Trump is reckless and destructive but believes...
In December 1776, following defeats in New York and New Jersey, when the American cause seemed all but lost, Thomas Paine published the first...
It shouldn't be too much to ask that taxpayer-funded social service programs benefit people who actually exist.
In May 1944, Learned Hand delivered a brief but timeless address in New York on "the spirit of liberty." Freedom, the great 2nd Circuit jurist warned,...
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More of the things that need to happen soon in downtown Little Rock:
The three-way Democratic Senate primary in Michigan is a remarkably precise microcosm of the divides within the Democratic Party. Representing the...
Since Saturday is the 250th anniversary of our nation, I would be remiss in not talking about the true meaning of patriotism.
Those of a certain age--roughly 65 or older--will recall the "Bicentennial Minute." These were one-minute homages to the mostly good history of...
There was a brief but scintillating social media exchange during covid-beset 2020 between a cornpone guy from Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, and a young...
For more than 30 years I've carried business cards that read: "Philip Martin, hack writer & plagiarist."
Two new histories revisit moments when Americans thought they could see what came next — a mercury boom in southwest Arkansas and a nation’s grand...
For Republicans in Congress who've been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm...
When Sylvia Halliburton became the first person to complete Arkansas' new community-based doula certification process, it marked more than a...
Back in 2009, Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, called for a "national conversation on race," and depicted America as a "nation of...
I sat on my porch this time last week, the morning silver giving way to a ceiling of gray clouds. Rain was coming. The wind pushed unseen energy...
The 25th and final session of the Council of Trent (December 1563) ordered the enclosure of all female religious orders, meaning that religious women,...
In a June 11 op-ed in this fine newspaper, former mayor Jim Dailey urged the residents of central Arkansas to lay aside their opposition to Google...
When I purchased my car in mid-April, the paperwork guy at the dealership handed me a temporary tag in lieu of a license plate. I told him I had...
Is there something to an Arkansas summer, all thick and humid, that makes good conditions for a bacterial plague? A summer here can be like a petri...
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, we should give thanks for the courage of the founders. In the conclusion to the...
Graduation week is nearing as I sit on the porch of the Inn at Carnall Hall, a hotel on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. An...
If you watch a lot of British crime dramas, you eventually begin to suspect that the United Kingdom is covered by an enormous security camera system.
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