Opinion and Letters

Taxes are how we come together to pay for things that benefit all Arkansans: good schools, health care and emergency services, well-maintained roads and bridge…

Resurrecting the past

"Bishop," Aunt Nan said one day. "Billy has always been pretty, but it seems to me she is growing more beautiful every day. I look at her and wonder. And she d…

Let's play Obfuscation, a game with three parts:

NASCAR driver and reporter Kenny Wallace retired in 2015 after driving in the national series since 1988. His 25-year career included nine wins, all in the NAS…

An Arkansas politician during Reconstruction, James M. Hinds is one of the six members in the history of the U.S. Congress to have been murdered, as well as th…

I got an email the other day from a watch company--not a Swiss watch company, but an American up-and-comer you've probably never heard of--inviting me to becom…

Twenty years ago last week, I watched the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on TV in a hotel room in Amman, Jordan, wondering whether it was good or bad l…

No matter how many interviews or studies are done, I don't think you can understand the innermost feelings of a white Southerner unless you are one.

The time of smoke-filled back-room deals that undermine the will of the people has yet to come to an end.

There was magic in the Albuquerque air recently. For only the fifth time in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history, a university's athletic te…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wants a "national divorce." In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries.

For weeks, we'd been half-heartedly shopping animal shelter and rescue websites and quietly putting the word out. It was a little discouraging--we had specific…

I am writing this on my phone from a jungle on the beach in Costa Rica. My hammock is slung between a palm tree full of coconuts and an almond tree whose fruit…

Humans like to live on slightly elevated sites with a view of water. Flat farmland nearby is desirable as well. If you like to see human affinities explained a…