Editorial columns
Slogans, slogans everywhere. We might imagine ourselves living in a golden age for slogans, if ad agencies and politickers weren't so busily churning out duds.…
by Celia Storey May 23, 2022Obfuscation is our game.
by Celia Storey May 23, 2022During a storm on May 26, 2002, the towboat Robert Y. Love was pushing two barges when it drifted out of the shipping channel on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas Ri…
by Celia Storey May 23, 2022They're baaack! We pulled two ticks from little Benji the other day, and I found one crabbing up my leg in search of a place to snack.
by Mike Masterson May 22, 2022Arkansas PBS proposed last year to use a federal grant to hire a consultant for elementary-aged children's educational programming. But it pulled down the cont…
by John Brummett May 22, 2022In March, a Boeing 737-800 cruising straight and level on a routine domestic flight suddenly nosedived into a hillside, killing all 132 aboard.
by The Chicago Tribune May 21, 2022Eleven years ago this coming Sunday evening, we began to hear about devastation in Joplin, Mo. No one who saw the aftermath of the EF-5 storm that swept throug…
by Preston Jones Special to the Democrat-Gazette May 21, 2022In 1911, with wild game populations declining rapidly across the country due to market hunting, Arkansas was one of just seven states with no conservation agen…
by Rex Nelson May 21, 2022The Bowen Law School faculty hath decreed (so let it be written, so let it be done): No longer will Jewish Professor Rob Steinbuch be allowed to select guest s…
by Mike Masterson May 21, 2022Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In today's Army, that notion…
by Thomas Spoehr Tribune News Service May 20, 2022The recently leaked judicial opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito indicates that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade by the end of June.
by Joshua M. Silverstein Special to the Democrat-Gazette May 20, 2022You have brains in your head.
by Dana Kelley May 20, 2022Recent remarks by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, noting the institutional damage caused by the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion on Roe v. Wade, h…
by Star Parker May 19, 2022Many news stories stress that our ecosystems are under assault by Burmese pythons and Asian carp. This leads people to conclude that it is the less charismatic…
by Luke Guzelis In the Chicago Tribune May 19, 2022In this amazing modern age, swabbing the inside of your cheek can illuminate your family tree and introduce you to ancestors and relatives in faraway places or…
by Nate Coulter Special to the Democrat-Gazette May 19, 2022