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Last month I wrote a guest column suggesting Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. French Hill would hide in the men's room rather than answer a reporter's...
In a few weeks, Arkansas will become the only state in America where it will be a crime to "make available" books that are "harmful to minors" in...
At the beginning of this school year, I gave a speech to a group of parents, seeking to provide information while exhorting them to be at their best...
We've all heard of politically connected businesses getting tax breaks. But are you ready for politically connected businesses staffing boards that...
Artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to build an app. New releases on Apple Inc.'s App Store surged by about 80 percent earlier this...
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." -- Coach Eric Taylor, Friday Night Lights
Owning forestland can be expensive, which is one reason Arkansas lost more than 80,000 acres of it last year. But landowners now have a way to help...
Okay. I admit, I didn't see the entire Republican midterm convention in Dallas this past week. However, I did watch Wednesday night before my deadline...
Just when you thought the Lindsay Clancy case couldn't get any worse, click-chasing social media conspiracy theorists have dragged it to a new low.
What a wretched time for Gloria Steinem to die.
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...
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...
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...
If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November...
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...
On Monday, West Chicago announced the city was reviewing its Flock camera system after discovering an officer may have been using it for "an...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
In 2021 and 2022, the Craighead County Library in Jonesboro became a flashpoint for the city, the region, the state, and ultimately the nation over...
As President Donald Trump's midterm convention at the American Airlines Center approaches, the political mood in America is, to put it mildly, divided...
Number 1 vs. Number 2 is always intriguing, even if we're only one game into the season.
After months of negotiations and hang-ups, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a Russian sanctions bill prior to leaving town on recess. House Speaker...
It's that time of year when Arkansans are engaged in (futile) mortal combat with the nefarious "humidity pods" first identified by the late great...
In principle, and as often as possible in practice, it's best to separate judgments about an artist from judgments about the art.
Anyone searching for good news in a report published last week in the BMJ, a prominent British medical journal, might turn to the headline under which...
If Pete Buttigieg is the key to winning more Black votes for Democrats in South Carolina, then Black voters should be very clear about what they...
On the morning of July 15, a Blue Angels F/A-18 came in over Florida's Pensacola Beach so low it sent umbrellas and beach chairs tumbling while...
If a muscle atrophies, our bodies weaken. We can't walk very far, we can't lift things.
The diagnosis was not a surprise--well, yes, it was, because like many men with health issuses, we try to deny it, or delay treatment, when everyone...
It's no secret that America's defense production has lagged for the last few decades. From Ukraine to Iran, even modest demands on our military have...
Memo to President Donald Trump: Canada is our friend.
America's national debt has climbed above $40 trillion for the first time, an obligation that is impossible to pay off and one that should be...