Editorial columns

In the game of historical "what ifs," it's worth imagining what might have been if Colin Powell--who in the early 1990s was among the most admired figures in...

The CDC reports that 35 percent of adult Arkansans--one out of three--live with developmental disabilities, which is nearly 10 percent higher than the nation...

Every good or arguable reason for Little Rock's historically progressive public school supporters to oppose a school debt millage extension--not a debt milla...

The Biden administration proposes to raise money to pay for its big "social infrastructure" bill in part by requiring banks to send the Internal Revenue Serv...

In retirement, I have been working on a small collection of homilies from funerals titled "Getting on Toward Home." The title draws from Donald Harington's "...

Comedy is like surgery; there will be blood and pain.

"Billions" is back. Season 5 gets off to an explosive start.

Normally the political party that loses an election goes through a period of soul-searching and vigorous internal debate while the winning party embraces a s...

A nation is a community of people that, at best, is held together by a common story. When I was a kid, I was told a certain triumphalist story about America,...

Whether the Democratic Party's burgeoning opposition to charter schools will lead to electoral trouble is an open question, but this much seems clear: As tim...

Almost everyone has a pet of some kind, and they vary with the individual's taste. From the time I was 6 years old, several dogs were always around and under...

I am not surprised to learn that the murder rate in Arkansas and the nation is increasing. We are a violent country, and Arkansans have been killing each oth...

Louie Graves, who's in his 70s, has spent a lifetime in the newspaper business. As I enter the Main Street offices of the Nashville News-Leader, I spot Grave...

We're expected to pledge sworn oaths and allegiances to various endeavors often beginning in school and throughout our careers and lives as adults. But do we...

Everything weird, woeful and wonderful about Arkansas politics and government took center stage Wednesday afternoon.