OPINION | GREG HARTON: The joy of aging: When the marketing machine passes you by
The older I've gotten, the less any complaint I have about music, television shows, movies and other entertainment matters to the people making decisions about…
The older I've gotten, the less any complaint I have about music, television shows, movies and other entertainment matters to the people making decisions about…
It’s too early to suggest state legislators are finished coming up with time-wasting culture war bills, but with Gov. Sarah Sanders’ introduction of her educat…
Selection of Sarah Huckabee Sanders to deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address surprised me, but I may be using mea…
It will come as no surprise to anyone paying attention: When it comes to civic engagement -- that is, being directly involved in local government and the commu…
I sat in the Walton Arts Center theater watching a man on stage dressed as a woman, affecting the mannerisms typically associated with femininity and singing/s…
The idea that parents matter in the education of their children isn't exactly an Einstein-level discovery.
Was it "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" or "The Taking of Pelham 123"?
Score one for Beth Coger. And for transparency in government.
This being Christmas morning, the mission -- should any newspaper opinion writer choose to accept it -- is to put together a few hundred words that lend signif…
I'm no scientist. That's no theory. It's a fact established by years of empirical evidence.
That Brittney Griner was released from prison in Russia is news that should to be universally celebrated here in the United States. The U.S. government did wha…
The most surprising fact to come out of former U.S. senator Hillary Clinton's appearance in Bentonville last week is that she had never been to Crystal Bridges…
Millions of Americans took to the nation's highways last week in pursuit of turkey and reunions with families and friends. I was certainly among them, driving …
I sat in a routine meeting last Wednesday. Rusty Turner, this newspaper's editor, turned his attention to his smartphone.
Several days removed from the end of the campaign season (though not for runoff candidates), it's tempting to write about anything but the election cycle we ju…
The state's gubernatorial campaign has pitted the hard-working Chris Jones and the hardly visible -- except in TV commercials -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Voters across the state have a lot of decisions to make on Nov. 8, Election Day, or during the early voting period that precedes it.
Political advice these days, at least for people who appear to be shoo-ins for the office they seek, seems to be focused on individual victory to the exclusion…
In the ongoing love/hate relationship I've got with Facebook, perhaps one of the features I appreciate the most is its ability to pluck photos and events from …
Did you mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II?
John Boozman likely ensured himself another six years in the United States Senate when he avoided a runoff in the GOP primary against far-right challengers Jak…
What days of remembrance we find ourselves in.
Joe Biden gave a speech the other night in front of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. It was never going to be a speech Donald Trump supporters embraced.
Let's take a moment and consider that the good intentions we almost always assign to our own actions might just motivate others as well.
"I just think it's time to celebrate a different kind of history."
People who, these days, dig in their heels against electric vehicles remind me a little of Charlton Heston.
One's perception of Northwest Arkansas is largely defined by his or her direct, day-to-day environment.
One of my most interesting college professors taught me in my freshman fall semester.
Sports talk radio can be excruciating.
Thirty-five years ago this week, a U.S. Marine Corps colonel sat before a joint congressional committee attempting to explain his part in secretly diverting mo…
As the U.S. Supreme Court's term ended Thursday, a lot of Americans breathed a sigh of relief. At least until after October, the nation won't have to worry abo…
When writing a news story, reporters always have to make choices about which facts are most important and which phrasing is most accurate in delivering the inf…
Among reasons I voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election -- and yes, that means I voted for Donald Trump -- was the idea of bringing someone who wasn…
Last week, my beloved St. Louis Cardinals played the Tampa Bay Rays and, sad to say, the Rays beat them in all three games.
Jim Hendren's Common Ground Arkansas last month attempted to make the politically moderate middle more relevent in the state's politics. And by the state's pol…
Last week, every effort to write a Sunday column about anything other than the murders of a classroom full of fourth-graders quickly became pointless.
The fight over Northwest Arkansas' capacity for incarcerating people has intensified in recent days. The questions over how to approach the subject are varied.
When the Walton Arts Center opened on Fayetteville's Dickson Street back in April 1992, there was naturally a lot of excitement about the facility's capacity t…
I always struggle with romanticizing the early days of my political awareness. I grew up in central Arkansas during a time when Democrats ruled the roost prett…
It's not easy to become president of the United States.
With more than 20 years of writing opinion columns, I've covered a lot of topics, from local political issues to national ones.
I don't give money to political campaigns. I don't sign petitions. I don't put political campaign signs in my yard.
A few odds and ends on my mind:
The longer a journalist works, the higher the chances he or she has been called out by someone in a public meeting over some piece of information reported in t…
Through my many years of publishing columns, it's been quite clear that many readers never find my writing quite so skilled and brilliant as when I happen to a…
The Democrat-Gazette's March 19 Religion Page offered a review of the mostly united but occasionally tumultuous 54-year history of the United Methodist Church.
Term limits are a double-edge sword.
Leslie Rutledge continues her practice of globbing onto distant litigation as long as it provides a partisan opportunity for state-paid promotion of, well, Les…
It seems easy for some folks, but I've always had a hard time classifying people as either entirely upright, good and moral or entirely evil and lacking in hum…