Opinion and Letters

See the latest work from editorial cartoonist John Deering.

British statesman George Savile once said that men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. That is, in a law and order society...

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...

Some weeks ago, dozens of families in southern Arkansas were given the happy news: They could transfer their kids out of failing school districts into other ...

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 news of Colin Powell's death had hardly been announced before the foil-hatted anti-vaxxers started pointing to his passing as "proof" that vaccines are u...

Charles Robinson, the interim chancellor at the University of Arkansas' Fayetteville campus, told faculty last week that creating a greater sense of belongin...

There was a time, back in the 1980s, when young officers in the United States military cheered as one of their own made the big time. Colin Powell had been n...

For its San Diego convention in the summer of 1996, the Republican Party was anxious to avoid the acrimonious tone of its gathering in Houston four years ear...

If it's October, that must mean it's time for me to talk about fear again. Not goblins and ghouls or other Halloween-y things, but about those things so many...

The annual awards ceremony for the Arkansas Press Association was a virtual affair this year due to the pandemic, but I couldn't say "no" to APA executive di...

The governor has been considering a special legislative session to reduce the personal income tax rate from 5.9 percent to 5.5 percent, or more.

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...

"They said you was high class, but that was just a lie."