Editorial columns

Marvin Hare points to a photo of a family duck hunt as we sit in the conference room of his farm headquarters near Newport.

He's sitting out on his front porch in the late afternoon with a can of beer. Bothering no one.

Asa Hutchinson doesn't appear to be the kind of governor who'd sign off on something for partisan reasons only. He doesn't give that impression either in wor...

The first time I spoke with state Sen. Jason Rapert, at least by my memory, and I think I would remember something before because blustery sanctimony leaves ...

During the early 1800s, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel offered his relatively esoteric theory of human interaction called the Hegelian Dialectic.

Everyone who paid attention during the Obama years knew that Republicans would try to undermine Democratic presidencies. Some of the GOP's actions--notably, ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed sent an unintentional message recently by violating her own mask mandates while partying, maskless, in a jam-packed jazz clu...

In a world with over 82.4 million refugees, most of whom are fleeing from Syria, Venezuela, and Afghanistan, it is unsurprising that the recent events that u...

I'm in the fields at the University of Arkansas' Fruit Research Station north of Clarksville. Margaret Worthington of the UA faculty is trying to explain to ...

At this stage of life, I've considered signing a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order should doctors believe I'm at the end with no hope of restoring quality of li...

Ritchie Torres, a U.S. representative from America's poorest district--New York's 15th, in the Bronx--quietly bristles at the AOC comparison.

While the covid-19 pandemic and the Delta variant continue to affect Arkansas, a more silent health crisis is brewing in our communities.

Everywhere is somewhere, as Google Earth says in promoting its Geo Tools for teaching. "Place" is a universal framework, and much can be learned by overlayin...

For close to a decade, we have been able to quantify outdoor recreation as a major economic force in America, to the tune of $788 billion in output, 5.2 mill...

There are 2 types of births available to mankind: a human birth and a spiritual birth. One birth is from your mother's womb and the other birth is of the Spi...