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For patients, receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel intimidating and overwhelming, especially for a rare cancer. July is Sarcoma and Bone Cancer...
Somewhere around the two-hour mark in JD Vance's nearly three-hour podcast interview last week with Joe Rogan, the pair got into a serious...
Last Saturday, I saw all three hours of Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron, among others. It was the...
"No mas, no mas "--Roberto Duran
A recent column defending LEARNS by Jacob Oliva, the state's secretary of education, coupled with a critical response by Perspective columnist Gwen...
When I think of tennis one name usually pops up. Folks my age in south Arkansas will recognize it immediately: Myron Schoffner.
The Heartland Whole Health Institute recently released its report on Arkansas' physician shortage, making the case for a graduate medical education...
A reader named Karl sent me a newspaper column that raged against data centers and artificial intelligence. He hoped I'd give him a different point of...
You know, or should know, that when Benjamin Franklin emerged from the last session of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked if that body had...
Will the nation's biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it's no sure thing.
Elon Musk is still mad about "The Odyssey."
Dear Mahatma: Did you know the most stolen highway signs in Arkansas are the ones going into Weiner on U.S. 49? -- Smart Guy
Priorities. Normal folks set them every day just to make it through the day.
Laws with good intentions leading to unintended bad consequences is American politics 101. There are lots of cases, but the one I want to single out...
We live in a technological age. We have access to information anytime and anywhere. When used properly, that technology brings people together in ways...
The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment, with candidates winning Democratic congressional primaries in New York and Colorado. Given...
Sir, I am 28 years old. Some of my friends who rent say that there is no such thing as a buyer's market, that it is not a good time to buy a house,...
If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York's one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter...
Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.
Last month's heat wave killed an estimated 440 people per day at its peak in England and Wales--more than 100 times the daily toll from road crashes...
Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain?
Societies, like individuals, can become sick. And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology.
During a recent visit to a Navy ship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly became angry after seeing sailors with facial hair. The Navy requires...
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when in 1849 he coined the phrase "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme...
A long time ago, when I worked for Arkansas' environmental agency, each year employees throughout state government looked forward to obtaining the...
The January killings of protesters and U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota sparked horror and concern about the...
When the history of the first quarter of the 21st century is written, there will be one towering political figure above all the rest: President Donald...
I taught special education in Arkansas for three years. I loved my students. They were the reason I came to work every morning. But I ultimately made...
We can debate whether trade wars make good economic policy, or how much lying is allowed for national security reasons during times of war.
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Much excitement surrounded this past Independence Day--the 250th. That's a big, round number, so special events, special programs, special displays of...
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It's Arkansas, and it's summer, so it's hot. I'm concerned about what August will bring.
Hasn't this been a fun time? I am not well-versed in futbol; most of my knowledge comes from Ted Lasso. Decades ago my sons played soccer, but they...
Images of 5-year-old Liam, wearing a blue bunny hat as he and his father were detained by ICE agents on the way home from school in Minneapolis last...
Back on May 2, 2024, standing beside anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order essentially nullifying...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death sparked vicious vitriol from liberals and conspiracy theories from conservatives as Democrats looked...
Current events in Iran have largely pushed the Israeli-Hamas conflict out of the news cycle. But a recent incident in Gaza reinforces how Hamas...
Right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7. He's not sure how many deaths he's been...
Dear Mahatma: I see lots of clips on social media of bad driving behaviors captured on in-vehicle cameras. Pros and cons? I recently added one after...
Last spring my usually peaceful campus faced controversies likely to drop us in the annual Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) free...
As this semiquincentennial summer celebration continues, our founding history is front and center. We remember what happened in 1776 because it set...
The legendary Bayeux Tapestry detailing William of Normandy's 1066 conquest of England was embroidered, most likely by nuns, in England about 1,000...
Imagine, if you will, a desert town in the southwest whose agricultural water supply flows from a reservoir miles away. Every year water is released...
We were glad to see the photo of a smiling Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. The 84-year-old McConnell revealed Sunday...
In the summer of 2015, Donald Trump gave out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number at a campaign rally, leading to a flood of calls. The South Carolina...
The baby boom from 1946 to 1964 kept the ratio of workers paying Social Security taxes to the number of retirees receiving Social Security benefits at...
Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to "Scholarship Granting...
There's a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that studies show is more closely...
People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law, and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and...