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Rapid change is a defining feature of modern life: change in the ways we communicate, the ways we work, and even in who we think we and others are...
Twelve Ursuline nuns boarded the armed merchant ship Gironde on Feb. 22, 1727. Actually, they were hauled on board by a swing or cloth bag. A contrary...
A decade or so ago, I learned of a story that seemed edifying, if not powerful. A private school determined that its physical plant was in need of...
From college, where I more or less stumbled into majoring in geology, I credit the good Lord for guiding me into what has been a fulfilling career....
Arkansas is lucky to have an unapologetic governor. In 2023, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Arkansas LEARNS to transform Arkansas' education...
Recently, Boyce and I took our daughter Julianna to Boston. She had been learning about the American Revolution in school and was over the moon about...
Dear Mahatma: My grandson is about to take the driving test. I told him to make sure his old heap was up to safety regs. Which are what? -- Grandpa
Saturday is the 250th anniversary of an exceptional, world-changing event that's beyond our capability to fully comprehend.
As we celebrate our country's 250th anniversary, it seems fitting to remember our founding fathers were dreamers, attempting to create a foundation...
Perhaps the most evocative tune in America's patriotic repertoire, and certainly the most popular, is also among the least understood. Written by...
In December 1776, following defeats in New York and New Jersey, when the American cause seemed all but lost, Thomas Paine published the first...
It shouldn't be too much to ask that taxpayer-funded social service programs benefit people who actually exist.
In May 1944, Learned Hand delivered a brief but timeless address in New York on "the spirit of liberty." Freedom, the great 2nd Circuit jurist warned,...
The three-way Democratic Senate primary in Michigan is a remarkably precise microcosm of the divides within the Democratic Party. Representing the...
Those of a certain age--roughly 65 or older--will recall the "Bicentennial Minute." These were one-minute homages to the mostly good history of...
For Republicans in Congress who've been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm...
When Sylvia Halliburton became the first person to complete Arkansas' new community-based doula certification process, it marked more than a...
The 25th and final session of the Council of Trent (December 1563) ordered the enclosure of all female religious orders, meaning that religious women,...
In a June 11 op-ed in this fine newspaper, former mayor Jim Dailey urged the residents of central Arkansas to lay aside their opposition to Google...
Is there something to an Arkansas summer, all thick and humid, that makes good conditions for a bacterial plague? A summer here can be like a petri...
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, we should give thanks for the courage of the founders. In the conclusion to the...
I have to admit, having a father I was proud to call "Dad" may have influenced my emotions, but in 2018 when I watched "W" eulogize his dad, I'm man...
We all have memories of events that remain vividly in our minds. For me, one of the first is when I was about 12-13 years old and we had moved to a...
I had always loved sport. Growing up just outside New York City in an immigrant family, sandlot baseball and asphalt basketball were great levelers....
Not long after the end of World War II, my maternal grandmother Nina Grodzensky made the first of what would become annual visits to the U.S....
In 1788, the year before he assumed the presidency, George Washington wrote a letter to the radical Dutch Mennonite minister Francis Adrian Van der...
Dear Mystic Leader of the Motorway: I live in Lakeview (near Mountain Home) in a development called Glen Cove. Our main exit to Arkansas 178 is Glen...
When you live in the middle of the country, you come to expect storms in tornado season. You watch the radar and prepare accordingly, but it's rare...
Next week America celebrates its semiquincentennial, which is a mouthful of syllables meaning the 250th anniversary of our founding.
If you read the warnings about the proposed Educational Rights Amendment, you'd think we were on the verge of some gray, joyless school system where...
For about a decade, hundreds of deep-sea buoys off America's coasts have been monitoring the conditions of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The...
A man once asked a wise sage, “What happens after a war ends?” The sage thought for a long while and finally said, “Another one begins. But...
My father was fond of the Spanish expression "en los pequeños detalles se ve la persona"--the person is revealed in the small details. Last week, at...
No one can argue Northwest Arkansas knows the value of making good investments. As a small business owner, I am always looking for a good return on...
Economist and professor Mark J. Perry has for years tracked price increases in various economic sectors. His most recent chart shows price changes for...
President Trump's interim peace deal with Iran, which has partially opened the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil prices tumbling (but not yet gas prices),...
President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the "Memo of Understanding" (MOU) with Iran is a good...
Superstition and symmetry prevent me from killing spiders. I like them, and respect their work. They weave webs. They catch bugs and eat them. And...
Imagine a world in which all schools in all districts in all communities in Arkansas are the same. Identical academic standards, identical standards...
When Graciela Dela Torre developed chronic pain while on the job at a freight company in the Chicago area, she did what millions of Americans have...
I've traveled in 50 countries around the world, the majority on a bicycle in large parts. The only place I've seen a worse roadside trash problem than...
He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for 30 years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius. He could...
If the deal the U.S. has struck with Iran to end hostilities in the Persian Gulf is welcome, it's far from a victory. Any hopes of achieving more rest...
Policy in a functioning democracy evolves through the fusion of opposing viewpoints, a key advantage over dictatorial forms of government. But...
On April 29, 1945, U.S. troops liberated 32,000 emaciated political prisoners and Jews near the town of Dachau, Germany, 12 miles north of Munich....
This is an updated version of an incident I wrote about several years ago, for folks like my daughter Lara Mason. She and I were sitting in Vertis'...
It is the job of the judiciary, as Chief Justice John Marshall famously wrote, to say what the law is.
Unlike the multitude of books and articles on Europe, very little is available to the average reader about the Middle East other than what's...
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