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Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to run up the deficit and debt by trillions and kick millions off Medicaid and food stamps passed in the Senate...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThe U.S. Senate meets all night and through the next day and does nothing except argue and preen amid Democratic procedural...
Let us not lose sight of the issue.
I sent a text to Chris Jones, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 2022, saying I hoped we could talk about my hearing of his possibly running...
First, let's talk a little about the "f-bomb," which isn't what it used to be.
Democrat-Gazette onlineIs Donald Trump megalomaniacally mad, or does he pretend to be that on television and thereby apply tactical madness as his...
The national political condition is such that Democrats could be rendered incapable of winning the presidency or the U.S.
Readers still say they like the arrows.
I'd like to say that the letter to the editor was the best thing on the Voices page Sunday except for my column.
In American politics as currently diseased, cold-blooded murder can be less a cause for human grieving than a cause for partisan blame games.In
Seventeen years ago, I fell into--or perhaps I started--a public dust-up with a young woman reporter for a Little Rock television station.She
Sarah Sanders went on Fox News on Tuesday and did her thing for Donald Trump. She's no Karoline Leavitt, but she still has skills. Sanders'...
Everything is totally different about federalized troops activated in Los Angeles without a governor's request in 2025 and federalized troops...
The credibility of media reporting on politics plummets hourly.
Let us use as a guide The New York Times' piece over the weekend describing the anatomy of the burst of outsized infantility in Donald Trump and Elon...
An intellectual, atheist, neuroscientist and meditation advocate--that's all one person--was speaking on his podcast last week with a 37-year-old...
At the behest or command of Gov. Sarah Sanders, the Arkansas Board of Corrections is making final preparations to hire an architectural engineering...
Tim Walz was all over the political news last weekend.
A fellow from out in the country who drank a bit applied without invitation many years ago to be the editorial cartoonist for the old Arkansas...
Two fine conservative fellows forwarded me copies of President Donald Trump's pardon of former state Sen.
We need to stay up to date on the death spiral of the Democratic Party in presidential politics lest we wind up like students sleeping in algebra...
We must stop treating political issues and legal issues the same.
House Republicans in Washington were hugging and otherwise celebrating early Thursday morning.
"Thank goodness you called," Bubba McCoy said. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have any Memorial Day tradition left.
A coalition of direct-democracy advocates filed a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that would remove the Legislature's intentionally...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThe wise and venerable Democrat spoke with careful deliberation to younger admirers gathered around him at lunch.
The rock singer is a serious person. The president of the United States isn't.
It was great news for Arkansas and all other places where working poor people live.
Let's get right to the arrows. You know the drill.
One time, in an indoor pickleball contest, an opponent overhit the pickleball, similar to a wiffle ball, so badly that it came like a missile directly...
I recall the last time I wrote favorably in this space about a culturally connected and genuinely rural Arkansas woman with an interesting history...
There will be other commentaries this weekend on the pope, but those probably will be about the real one, the new one--Robert Prevost out of the north...
Joe Biden did an interview with the BBC on Tuesday.
Democrat-Gazette onlineAll hail the journalists working on "60 Minutes."
What we have for certain is a wildly reckless, say-anything president.
The legislative session will be formally adjourned Monday after a mid-April recess to await the governor's vetoes and the discovery of any technical...
Mainstream-media newsroom people with whom I've happily spent much of my life always struck me--generally speaking, of course--as impractical and kind...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThere apparently is not a catastrophic poll plummet for Donald Trump that Democrats can't manage to limbo under.
Good Democrats were gathered to watch presidential election returns in 2016, when, you'll recall, Hillary Clinton was going to win.
This being Sunday, let's blend religion and government.
As a responding reader put it so well the other day, Donald Trump surely uses the courts a lot for someone so contemptuous of them.
You could put four state legislators in a sedan oozing around a parking lot, and you'd be lucky to get two of the three passengers to agree that...
Disagreeing with a court decision is not the issue.
The just-completed legislative session seemed workmanlike and tame after the last few biennial exercises in extreme right-wing meanness and absurdity.
"Bill Maher got played," declared the headline on an opinion column in The Washington Post.
Democrat-Gazette onlineI called Bubba McCoy because he has an ego like everyone else, and I thought he would appreciate what I had to relay to him.
In 2006, the consummate Southern Blue Dog Democratic congressman with moderate to center-right leanings, the late Marion Berry representing the 1st...
I was going to write about the legislative session, but it's entirely too frantic and fluid in the last few days of that spectacle to take a chance...
Louis Brandeis was one of the great justices of the U.S.
Democrat-Gazette onlineIt's all about sticking their supposed conservative godliness in the face of those they perceive as heathens, which some might...