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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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Democrat, Republican, and independent voters (timely) often fall into the same flawed pattern when judging the nation's condition. Despite the hope...
Thank goodness that Boston Federal Judge Brian Murphy has stopped some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine insanity, reversing the Health and Human...
I have spent thousands of hours hunting in our woods and fishing in our lakes and streams. The result is an appreciation of Arkansas' natural beauty,...
The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane...
"Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general,...
In 1964, a U.S. destroyer was fired on in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnam's navy. The response was an escalation of troops in a war few Americans...
On Jan. 20, 2026, University of Arkansas School of Law students sent a clear message that the people of Arkansas are an afterthought in the legal...
Donald Trump must envy George W. Bush for the cultural compliance he got while dragging America to war in Iraq. If you didn’t live through it,...
For as long as I can remember, I’ve believed that children are capable of learning far more than most people assume. That belief didn’t start in a...
Before President Donald Trump attacked Iran, the United States conducted an array of highly publicized military preparations, seemingly to signal what...
My friend Bonnie needs a Korean translator for her memoir. Could she use AI, she wondered?
Dear Mahatma: When you drive down Cantrell Hill, past the entrance to Allsopp Park and the Shell station, there is always a puddle of water across the...
Main Street is getting squeezed from every direction. The restaurant owner in Little Rock, the boutique in Fayetteville, the farmers' market vendor in...
If history has taught us anything, it's that the atrocities of war never go down as civilization goes up. Advancements in industrialization and...
"Yeah, he's on the Tripoli." This was a text from my daughter about her husband. After hearing that the USS Tripoli, carrying about 2,500 Marines, was...
What to make of the sudden resignation of intelligence chief and onetime Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent?
In his voluminous work "The Devil's Dictionary," incurably iconoclastic writer Ambrose Bierce suggests a scenario only he could concoct; one which...
For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly...
For quite a while, someone has been living inside my computer, writing emails for me.
In 2024, for the first time in almost a century, the United States spent more financing its national debt than it did as a percentage of GDP on...
We rejoice when Republicans and Democrats in our Congress today publicize bipartisan efforts to get legislation passed. This should be the norm, not...
In high school, I put useless trivia knowledge to work on the quiz bowl team. I wasn't the fastest on the buzzer, but I learned quickly which names...
Dear politicians,
Democrats are increasingly turning their sights on Secretary of State Marco Rubio--belittling everything from his shoes to his leadership of President...
Americans are a proud bunch. We are a nation founded on the principles of freedom and the rule of law, and our commitment to these values has...
At the risk of fiddling while America's burning, let's talk about what really matters to Arkansas voters: Darius Acuff Jr.
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