OPINION | SARAH MCKENZIE: Grading schools
Do you have a pet peeve? I do. It's when the ratings for something don't capture what most people care about. Unfortunately, this is the current situation with…
Do you have a pet peeve? I do. It's when the ratings for something don't capture what most people care about. Unfortunately, this is the current situation with…
As a little girl, I dreamed of having magical ruby slippers like Dorothy's in "The Wizard of Oz." If I only had magic, I could save the world.
The results of Super Tuesday, the subsequent withdrawal of Nikki Haley from the GOP race, and Joe Biden managing to get through his State of the Union speech w…
The green clovers of St. Patrick's Day put us in mind of another clover that has thrived in Arkansas since 1908.
"Nothing comes from nothing." This notion was first articulated, according to our historical record, by the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides of Elea and con…
You have to work hard to make me angry. That is not to say little things don't grate on my nerves. But getting worked up to the point I am truly angry is rare.
Charles de Gaulle, when he was president of France, was reported to have said, when he didn't return or answer phone calls: "If I wanted to talk to him, I woul…
The great Mississippi writer Willie Morris once used a term that I think about on days like this: "the last of the desultory Southern drivers."
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published April 30, 2012.
If you're sitting around not doing anything, you might invest a few minutes pondering whether it would be good or bad if former Gov. Asa Hutchinson became pres…
When I was a young father, I learned a lot about choices that are inherent to being human. I learned this by doing laundry.
Like most counties in rural Arkansas, Dallas County has been bleeding population for decades. In 1930, there were 14,671 residents. By the 2020 census, that ha…
Imagine you and hundreds of others were convicted and sentenced to years behind bars for committing serious felonies based largely on questionable forensic fin…