|
Arkansas Online |
Dear Mahatma: I drove through Cabot and Jacksonville on a Sunday and slowed to comply with the posted work zone speeds. Among my fellow drivers, about...
In the sweltering summer of 1999, I sat in my backyard in Fort Smith, reading Sharon Creech's "Bloomability." I shielded my eyes from the sun and...
Earlier this summer, the America 250 celebration centered around 1776 events. The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in contrast, recalls recent...
Politicians always promise to stand with Main Street. Thankfully, Congressman French Hill is fighting hard to keep that promise in Washington, D.C....
Years of searching for widespread voter fraud and not finding it have not deterred President Donald Trump. He is convinced there are myriad...
Recently I wrote about a guest column from former first ladies who asked Arkansas public television to move "PBS NewsHour" back to 6 p.m. (from 10...
The records considered here have little in common but persistence.
I dismissed the cheerful coach after 10 minutes. Nearly two seasons later, I understand that his kindness is not innocence but something fashioned...
One reason I write about my experience with marriage as it relates to evangelical indoctrination is that I hear from so many women--and a few...
The argument about these private-school vouchers that Gov. Sarah Sanders professes to be so proud of has been largely conceptual, philosophical, and...
President Donald Trump has renamed the lake formerly known as Ontario as Lake America. He's also renamed the Gulf of Mexico and has posted about...
Suppose we drive past a vehicle that has been pulled over and observe the driver being taken into custody by the police. All things being equal, we as...
Three days before 9/11, I hosted an out-of-town friend who wanted to take in the view of New York from above. I suggested a drink at Windows on the...
They say democracy dies in darkness. I'm wondering if accountability in essential government regulation of vital-service monopolies dies too.
Summer is finally nearing its end, though the high temperatures linger, making any thought of hot chocolate and curling up in blankets on the couch...
When Diamond Baseball Holdings purchased the Arkansas Travelers in May 2024 from the team's local shareholders, one of the things DBH officials liked...
Michigan's mid-term election ballot is littered with socialists.
It's midterms crunch time, so we are hearing endless political promises from all candidates. My hope is that with so much talk about affordability and...
Labor Day traditionally starts the general election season. The Monday holiday always requires that I write an extra column in a week's time so that...
I'm glad my 89-year-old mother doesn't have email.
If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November...
A century after “The Castle” appeared, we live among chatbots, algorithms and institutions where everybody seems to have authority but nobody can...
Four years ago, in doing some research for a job I applied for, I came across an article about the company that recounted the story of a truck driver...
The most important lesson of the sad Jason Arday tale isn't that "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" (DEI) practices lead to a deterioration of...
On Monday, West Chicago announced the city was reviewing its Flock camera system after discovering an officer may have been using it for "an...
I'm not the fast-food type. I rarely eat it, even though, like TV channels now, there are a lot more options than when I was a kid.
The last thing I want to write about is the Netflix documentary "Death of the Pastor's Wife." I addressed it in my Thursday online column after...
The subject of noncitizen voting has been in the news recently. New Jersey's governor admitted their state allowed 6,600 noncitizens to register to...
Few sports are as fraught with opportunities to choke like tennis. Watching Arnya Sabalenka blow the Australian Open as she squandered a 3-0 lead in...
After graduating from Norphlet High School, I entered the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and spent my freshman year enjoying college. I...
At 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Sept. 6, 1901, the doors of the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y., swung open and the public began filing past the...
Guest columns, contributed by our readers, are priceless additions to the editorial content of Perspective. Your opinions, research, insights and...
In the November 1926 issue of Dixie Magazine, a short-lived publication based in Little Rock that was "Devoted to the Development and Upbuilding of...
Amaya Hardin of Maumelle was in a vehicle recently with her parents when she let out a gasp. Hardin, a 23-year-old actor, had just scored the role of...
Bubba McCoy reports for Labor Day that his blood pressure is down thanks to medicine, beet juice that's tastier than you think, an elimination of...
Well, here we are again. It's another Labor Day weekend following a week of triple-digit heat indexes, and the week ahead's not looking much better....
The national debt isn't just a big number. It's a major anchor on economic growth.
The Arkansas Travelers will play their final home game of the 2026 season today at Dickey-Stephens Park. Those of us who follow Travelers baseball...
After a lifetime spent arguing about movies, David Thomson wonders whether they deserved all that attention.
Streaming doesn’t just change what we watch. It changes what it means for television to have a season.
Dolly Parton died on Aug. 25. Six days later, Wendell Berry died.
Earlier this year, LinkedIn included Little Rock on its list of the 25 fastest-growing U.S. metros for jobs and new talent. As you might imagine,...
America debates capitalism and socialism in academic papers and cable news studios. In federal prison, the debate becomes concrete. It is served on a...
The backlash against Flock cameras and AI data centers crosses every sort of boundary--political, rural/urban and racial.
Midterm conventions are a calculated risk.
I didn't expect Google Gemini to be business savvy, but it taught me how to get my money back from an unscrupulous chiropractor.
A dusty box. Old, brittle photos of unknown faces. No names. No dates. A piece of lacework, clearly from another era. Next, a family Bible. Inside the...
Dear Mahatma: Most police cars now have video cameras. So if an officer was pursuing a speeding car that was not stopping, then the officer should...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with the dean of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State...
Psychology tells us that inside every man, no matter how long he lives, is a little boy. Honest self-appraisal confirms that truth. And for most...