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I've written that we're at least several years from even the best Democratic candidate being able to win statewide office in Arkansas. That's how...
If there's one thing I've learned over the past few decades of observation of partisans, it's that people who describe themselves as "normies" usually...
Our fraught national debate over immunization and public health has overshadowed some extremely encouraging advances being made by researchers in the...
Many speeches will be delivered this year about the Declaration of Independence as we celebrate our country's 250th birthday.
It could be that within a week or so the state Legislature will pass a bill authorizing Gov. Sarah Sanders, at the behest of sponsoring state Sen....
I went through a box of books I hadn't opened since we moved six years ago, intending to send a stack to the neighborhood Little Free Library or to...
It would be amusing if it wasn't so serious. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and several other Democrats were on weekend programs...
There's a literary move that can be mistaken for caution. A novelist returns to a familiar character and a book with a modest afterlife becomes a book...
When Donald Trump took office in 2025, he selected Lee Zeldin, one of his loyalists, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. On Feb. 12 of...
The verdict has been in for some time now: In the centuries-old struggle between free markets and various strains of collectivism/socialism, the...
I gave my life to Jesus on a September evening in the Cabot High School auditorium. I was a 13-year-old student athlete from a broken home. The sermon...
You can't make this stuff up: Florida lawmakers are going to reconsider a proposal to expand vaccine exemptions for school children just as the state...
Three matters of political and governmental interest commanded federal or state attention last week. They invite review and commentary. Let's use the...
Throughout decades of golf, I've always said, "When someone with a lower handicap offers advice, take it." And if that's a reasonable school of...
More than 200 business and civic leaders from across southeast Arkansas will gather at Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart Thursday to talk about the...
This is a typical call to the Arkansas Office of Skills Development:
The Prince Edward Dragoons mustered on June 24, 1861, near Farmville, Va. They rode to camp at Ashland, where they would become Company K of the 2nd...
Fishermen have an old saying: "Throw them back and get them when they're bigger." That strategy works; the ecosystem provides conditions that allow...
Libya is basically a low-humid desert, which preserves historic buildings and tracks in the sand. Put an Arkansas arrowhead hunter like me there,...
As promised, here's the rest of Dr. Glen Fenter's speech at the recent Charleston Chamber of Commerce banquet:
There is a common Internet idiom that commands "go touch some grass." It is typically used when someone online begins spouting logic that can only...
We live in a small state. Dr. Lowry Barnes, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and I have known each other since we were...
There it is again, lighting up the phone like a digital saint's card: Donald Trump, in full messiah drag, haloed and ready for worship. Not exactly a...
An actor from Wynne has been honored for his work on Broadway. Jacob Keith Watson was named Most Outstanding Male in an Ensemble for his performance...
In a state where beer once meant whatever came off the truck, a looser, more local culture has taken hold — one that resists settling on a single...
The Library of America gathers “Legs,” “Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game” and “Ironweed” into “The Albany Trilogy,” but William...
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John Olin was born into a wealthy family in November 1892 in Alton, Ill. These days, Olin Business School and Olin Library at Washington University in...
An email hit my inbox last December that contained only a simple graph and a single sentiment: Our kids need to read more. Displaying a rising arrow...
The razor-thin outcome in Virginia's recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily gerrymandered map...
Tucker Carlson, you might have heard, is sorry. Early this week he posted a long conversation with his brother, Buckley, a former Trump speechwriter,...
Dear Knowledgeable Source: Much is written of the consequences of driving while texting. Am I also liable to be arrested for munching on my Sonic...
As a young parent and member of the House Public Health Committee, I see the value of investing in maternal health issues. That's why I continue...
This is a momentous year for U.S. history. Celebrating the semisesquicentennial of U.S. independence, America 250 will reach its apex on July 4 of...
Chancellor Charles Robinson, Provost Indrajeet Chaubey, and Dean Brian Raines: It has come to my attention that Rep. Dan Sullivan has declared his...
In recent columns, I described disturbing cases of antisemitism in Arkansas. The first involved University of Arkansas-Fayetteville's King Fahd Center...
Early in Apple TV’s “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” Margo — played by Elle Fanning — does something that should, in the grammar of...
What happens when artists, at different points in their careers, decide to strip away a layer or two of insulation and see what's left standing?
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The fact that Virginia was voting at all Tuesday stood as testament to the alarming decline of healthy function in American politics.
Our immigration system has been broken for a long time, often leaving immigrants in decades-long limbo.
President Donald Trump is the new Gerald Ford.
It's not often one hears students clamoring for tougher coursework and tighter deadlines. But a group of college kids who recently graduated from...
University administrators sometimes ask how their institutions can best serve democracy. For decades, many believed that their role was to serve as...
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Southern food and culture expert John T. Edge recently made his way to the Arkansas Grand Prairie with a team of six people to prepare an episode of...
The planets of our solar system, save one, are known for mythological numens. Most are Roman. One fantastical deity is from the Greek. Earth is the...
In 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill he claimed would stop price gouging by oil companies. In 2022, average gas prices in California...
Here's a scenario from California that would be hard for even a Hollywood screenwriter to come up with.
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