How much of a horrible person do you have to be to get other Arkansas leaders to crack down on you? The answer in terms of the state judiciary is this bad: Two days after being sworn in, the Arkansas Supreme Court’s new chief justice...
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My Arkansas correspondent has kept me informed about the courts denying the abortion referendum for that state's voters and it's just completely out of control. The Arkansas Supreme Court on.
I mentioned the other day the bullshit that Arkansas's Secretary of State used to try and stop voters from deciding whether abortion will be legal in that state. Well, our.
The Arkansas effort to get abortion rights on the ballot is probably dead due to the Arkansas Secretary of State finding a vague technicality to throw out the whole effort. Hell hath no fury like that of women scorned on a technicality. But that’s the...
This is the grave of James Berry. Born in Jackson County, Alabama in 1841, Berry moved to Arkansas when he was 7. His family were farmers who also opened a.
Arkansas continues to lead the laboratories of democracy: The majority-Republican House approved by a 60-19 vote a proposal allowing the creation of a “monument to the unborn” on the Capitol.
On September 30, 1919, a shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. One of the worst massacres in American history, and...
I think we all know Bari Weiss and Thomas Chatterton Williams will be issuing public statements about free speech on criticizing Israel anytime now: At The Arkansas Times, a publication.
Wow, it's almost as if privatizing public education leads to bad outcomes for less than ideal students (at least from the perspective of the charter industry). The Arkansas state legislature's.
The good people of Arkansas are making sure their kids get taught Real American history, by which they mean white supremacist narratives. Two bills introduced during the 2021 Arkansas legislative session seek to restrict what can be taught in the state's schools. HB 1231, also known...
Monica Potts' columns from rural Arkansas are more useful than most of the "what is the white working class thinking" columns because she actually knows the region well and isn't.
On January 3, 1931, farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers' poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America.