Opinion and Letters

Against all odds, Ukraine continues to hold its own in its war against Russia. What most Arkansans don't realize is that the Ukrainians are relying in part on …

Librarians in battle

That was a joyous abundance of pragmatism going on last week in the debt-ceiling vote by the usually non-pragmatic and Trump-cowed Washington delegation from A…

"If you got 75 or 80 percent of what you were asking for, I say take it and fight for the rest later."

Of all the movie news this summer--the new Indiana Jones flick coming out, "Barbie" and the Dr. Oppenheimer movie, not to mention the new Wes Anderson movie "A…

When the first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, starting in 1789 began issuing debt to borrow on the good name of the new government of the United State…

In Round One at the Arkansas Supreme Court, the state Constitution edged Gov. Sarah Sanders by a vote of 4-to-3.

"If you fail to do your duty, you will leave We the People no choice but to walk in the founders [sic] footsteps by declaring the regime illegitimate, incapabl…

I unleashed torrents of feelings a while back by asking readers to share their pet peeves. It began by listing a several of my own and asking who else had some…

Old and in the way

Today Old News wraps up a four months' effort to paraphrase a novella written by Bernie Babcock and published in 1922 by the Arkansas Democrat.

We've all known them. You know, the friends, classmates or co-workers who stood ready to accept the praise but, when something went wrong, were the first to bl…

True story: There once was a 15-year-old who ran away from home with a few friends. In preparation, he forged grandpa's name on a $1 million check, made it out…

Chris Christie's running. So's Mike Pence. And former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. And Sen. Tim Scott, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and businessman V…

While touches of decency still hang around, a leftist holier-than-thou pseudo-intellectual movement is pummeling America into a conglomeration of inanities and…