|
Arkansas Online |
As Drake floods the streaming zone with three simultaneous albums, Kevin Morby, Rostam, Peter Frampton, 49 Winchester and Willie Nelson make stronger...
As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival heads into its final weekend, one of the most talked-about resurrection stories in Cannes Classics has not involved...
Democrat-Gazette online
I am happy to be able to write that our governor is far better on the issue of PBS than Oklahoma's, and that Arkansas is no longer the lone pioneer or...
The young and dynamic mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, when asked what he would say to visiting British monarch King Charles said, "If I was to...
In September 1941, the death of a family member prompted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say how he should be remembered.
As President Donald Trump and his administration head toward the midterm elections, it's now clear that the Republican Party has split into three...
Democrat-Gazette online
The Washington Post published a story several months ago with this headline: "There's a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it's not data...
It's been a while since I've talked about cognitive biases. Considering that Monday is Memorial Day and we have people going around claiming the...
Major kudos to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During his testimony before Senate Armed Forces Committee, Hegseth was asked by Democratic Sen. Richard...
While in China, Donald Trump said the pile of 440 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium that was at the heart of his justification for going to war...
This may come as no surprise to those familiar with northwest Arkansas’ sustained growth, but affordable housing is hard to come by in the region.
Watching the tube earlier this week, we saw/heard some folks from out west chanting slogans against data centers in their communities. They were...
'Tis the season for graduations in Northwest Arkansas. If you ever struggle with a positive outlook on the world's future, I suggest attending the...
’Tis the season for graduations in Northwest Arkansas. If you ever struggle with a positive outlook on the world’s future, I suggest attending the...
A Republican state legislator has asked Gov. Sarah Sanders to call a special session—which we just had, with that session coming immediately after...
My grand-niece recently texted me an invitation to her college graduation. My mother—who oversees all divisions of the family operation requiring...
I am not an economist, but have personal experience with the principles of economics and the rules that allow Americans to prosper while becoming more...
"Boring Asian Female"Comparison might be the thief of joy, but in Canwen Xu's debut "Boring Asian Female," it has metastasized into a way of life.
For an administration that has been all too willing to weaponize the Department of Justice, the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey...
Ideally, members of Congress are sent to Washington to legislate, solve problems, and represent their constituents. In practice, much of their time is...
Donald Trump would want a third and a fourth, fifth or even sixth term as president if mortality and the Constitution didn't prevent it (although the...
There are many parts to this newspaper that I consistently enjoy, but one of the tops is the "Other Days" section. Brief articles from 100 years ago,...
Late last year, Target Corp. started giving detailed guidance to store employees about how to act. The 10-4 rule, as the company calls it, directs...
Recently a launch monitor informed me, politely but conclusively, that I am no longer the golfer I used to be.
The White House directive to put psychedelics on a regulatory fast track is welcome, and worrisome. This area of medicine demands extra care, or the...
The issue of whether we'll continue to get Public Broadcasting Service programming in Arkansas after the imminent end of this month, which many of you...
"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence."
In their early years as a married couple, my parents were "school people." That's what we always called them in our family. The word you hear these...
After getting the logging equipment set up, it crossed my mind: 13 days to go. We had a schedule that a maximum of two weeks or 14 days in the desert...
In the ancient teachings of the Upanishads, the Kali Yuga is the final, shortest, and worst of the four Yugas, or world ages. The Upanishads say that...
This is an opinion column with no set subject, which is fun because I can write whatever is on my mind. Sometimes that's politics. Other times it is...
My new car comes with three free months of Sirius XM channels. It might as well come with three free months of crack cocaine. There's no doubt that,...
There is a conversation happening quietly across America in homes, schools, therapy offices, across social media, and in the hearts of many Black...
Before I became a doula, I was simply a mom trying to navigate pregnancy and everything that came with it.
Staunton, Va.'s Thornrose Cemetery is a stone's throw from my desk. Just over the hill. Some 1,700 Confederate dead are buried there. The general...
Hank is an 8-year-old yellow lab and the guide dog of Eric Yarberry, CEO of Little Rock-based nonprofit World Services for the Blind.
Sixty years after Brian Wilson turned studio pop inward, outward and upside down, The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ remains less a nostalgic artifact...
Andy Beta’s ‘Cosmic Music’ argues that the pianist, harpist and spiritual visionary was never merely adjacent to jazz greatness. The culture...
"Don't embarrass the bureau." Among the unwritten rules of the FBI, upholding the reputation of the organization has been paramount since the days of...
In Wednesday's column, I wrote about Entergy Corp.'s plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Hot Spring County to replace the company's Lake...
Rex Nelson's April 26 column suggested that southeast Arkansas communities like mine derive no benefit from the Education Freedom Account (EFA)...
The U.S. Constitution is not an a la carte menu. States can't pick and choose the amendments and clauses they'll abide by and those they won't.
Democrat-Gazette online
This week’s episode is the first of a two part series in which Rex Nelson talks with Marion School District Superintendent Glen Fenter about public...
Last week after my column about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, one of the comments to the online edition summed up one of...
Arkansas' health challenges are not a matter of perception. They are visible in the numbers.
For more than a century, the American Bar Association has functioned as the de facto national gatekeeper of legal education. Its accreditation...
Netflix’s anthology reinvention ‘Beef’ trades the first season’s operatic chaos for something sharper and more unsettling.