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Today's column was going to talk about the inanity of posting ridiculous political memes meant to tar tens of millions of "those" Americans as the bad...
The Trump administration's sudden interest in reforms to a guest worker program for farmers is a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
Outdoor writer T. Edward Nickens does an excellent job describing the thrill of hunting ducks on a green-tree reservoir in Arkansas.
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A jury in Los Angeles may have done for social media what early lawsuits did for Big Tobacco. The jury of the recent landmark case K.G.M. vs. Meta and...
I am writing this from Anchorage, Alaska, where my two youngest daughters and I have come for spring break to visit a friend. I haven't seen him in...
George Izard died in November 1828, about a month after an attack of gout. The second territorial governor, according to the Arkansas Gazette,...
Well, this could be double-plus ung00d. Many a user of so-she-al media has found themselves b@nned, or tossed into a virtual gaol for using seemingly...
I have been an oil and gas exploration geologist all of my career, and have watched as the price of crude oil went from around $40 per barrel in the...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently sounded the alarm that a quarter of all pregnant women nationwide were delaying or forgoing...
My beloved Savannah got kicked out of her therapy dog class last week.
In 2026, voters are being asked to make two decisions that go to the heart of our democracy and our future: whether to strengthen educational...
For decades, the flooded green-timber reservoirs of east Arkansas have attracted duck hunters from across the country. They still do.
I recently spoke with a friend I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years. We met on a Zoom call, a detail that will eventually date us, the way earlier...
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate against U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, does sassy and effective campaign videos showing her talking directly into the...
For 50 years The Carroll County Heritage Museum in Berryville has displayed items that belonged to county judge Arthur Carter, a U.S. Marine Corps...
There are any number of ways to take the measure of a record’s life. Only a few of them have little to do with the music itself.
Read back to back, a debut novel of unraveling identity and a wide-ranging study of Black cinema begin to echo each other — two very different works...
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I've written a lot about Arkansas conservationists in recent weeks. I've written about Arkansans such as Dr. Neil Compton and Dr. Rex Hancock, who...
I was following the school bus to Russellville. With 50 kids plus four chaperones already on board, I was the odd man out and had to take my own car....
It's almost disappointing to see backers of Michigan's Millionaires Tax fail in their bid to get the measure on the November ballot.
It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear Donald Trump's war in Iran is going sideways. After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday,...
Recently, a woman told me she was looking for her biological father.
Hi: This question has to do with the metered parking outside of baggage claim at the Little Rock airport. Why do these meters operate differently than...
I have a young daughter at home. Like most parents, I think about the world she's growing up in, whether it's the schools she'll attend, the friends...
As history's portion of the overall K-12 public school curriculum continues to shrink, it's no surprise that proficiency scores in the subject dwindle...
For many Arkansas families, gambling is not just a policy debate, it is a personal concern. Too often, gambling relies on greed or deception and...
The father of the modern Zionist movement to establish a Jewish national home was Theodor Herzl, an Austrian-Jewish journalist and playwright. In...
Sturgill Simpson never seems entirely at home in the music industry, a vast and humming apparatus designed to shuttle songs from the hands of their...
In a sense, “Fargo” is a film noir. It belongs to that long American tradition from “The Maltese Falcon” through “Out of the Past” and...
Every week in clinics across Arkansas, physicians watch patients perform painful calculations in anticipation of the pharmacy counter: groceries or...
You should have to spend your own money to buy soda. Some people disagree.
Most Americans probably don't look back at March 2012--if they remember it at all--and think of terrifyingly high gas prices. In the month when "The...
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Last week, the state Senate took votes on confirmation of interim gubernatorial appointments. Close legislative watchers saw one roll call as a sign...
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At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its...
Man ... can everybody just calm down? Sheesh.
The winter storm came in late January, stranding me high atop the hill where I reside. I didn't leave the house for nine days.
In the space of a weekend, Donald Trump went from saying his war goals in Iran had been achieved and he'd soon be winding down to issuing a 48-hour...
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"Meet the Press" was a Sunday morning downer. There was great substance, all dreadful.
You notice it in the least dramatic place imaginable. Not in a speech or on one of those cable-news maps, all arrows and shaded regions and ominous...
I've seen enough. It's time to revise our expectations about the midterms.
Subordinates with different opinions about policies can be helpful. Subordinates with different views of reality aren't.
Someone with an even rudimentary understanding of economics should know that if you tax a business or individual beyond their level of tolerance, they...
Some books move forward. Others circle. "Paradiso 17" by Hannah Lillith Assadi and "Python's Kiss" by Louise Erdrich belong to the second camp, less...
Democrat, Republican, and independent voters (timely) often fall into the same flawed pattern when judging the nation's condition. Despite the hope...
The editors of this paper frequently get asked why they publish so many letters that tilt leftward in a state where so many voters tilt rightward.
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