Editorials

There have been other things happening in the news this week. They've just been bumped to the inside pages.

About this time last year, the White House tweeted the good news: The price of your July Fourth barbecue had dropped! So eat up, America, the Biden economic pl…

The gun safety bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Saturday is a welcome if measured improvement in public safety and a vivid reminder of what Washin…

On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that provided the right to abortion access in America. That right stood for 49 …

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, women no longer have a federal right to authority over their bodies. But they are now welcome to join the group standing arou…

Ludicrous statement

It often proves useful to read court opinions without a media filter. We say that as a media filter. But for weeks now we've been reading about (and hearing ab…

In talking to a friend Sunday evening after returning from my nephew's wedding, I noted how important it is to never stop learning. In that spirit, I learned q…

When my parents were students at what's now Ouachita Baptist University in the 1940s, a soon-to-be-famous incident occurred involving the school's president, J…

A recent letter to the editor suggested that social justice should be taught in our government schools as a cure for mass shootings. The writer went on to say …

It's the kind of thing that might have happened before and been swept under the rug or dealt with beneath radar. The state Legislature can be an insular societ…

It's June, it's hot, (college) baseball is over, and football can't get here fast enough.

"Soft" is a term tossed around a lot these days. But one person's "soft" is another person's legitimate issue.

There's been lots of recent comment and conjecture on social media about the large number of fires at meat-processing plants. People have grown increasingly co…

Asa Hutchinson appeared on one national television news show too many.