OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: For once, agreement
We may be seeing the political right and left coming together right here in Arkansas, among the unlikeliest of places.
We may be seeing the political right and left coming together right here in Arkansas, among the unlikeliest of places.
May I summarize the lectern audit in gritty plain language? Why, thank you. I shall.
I sat there thinking the event was working and that I only cared right now in politics about good will and tolerance among people who differ on issues.
There is a way to do it. Here, let me show Asa Hutchinson how.
"Get your glasses and look at this," she said. "It's like a mouse has bitten off a piece of cheese."
Donald Trump has no interest other than winning. So it's telling that he believes his interest will be best served by softening his position on abortion.
Cutting-edge high-tech innovation tends to spring up home-grown after a long investment in elite higher education systems emphasizing mathematics and science a…
Sarah Sanders surely has no serious worry about getting re-elected in 2026. But surviving the election unscathed this November, when she won't appear on the ba…
U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky draws the lawsuit against the indoctrination section of Gov. Sanders' LEARNS act. He makes a formal disclosure that he plans t…
Critics will say today's offering is anti-democratic. I think it's anti-destructive. Y'all decide, or at least think about it if you have the inclination. And,…
They say the lower the stakes, the louder the spat.
What appears to have happened is that the cryptocurrency-mining industry—which few in Arkansas knew anything about—delivered to the pliable, business-coveting …
The abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court is, in some ways, bigger than the Roe v. Wade repeal.
This is a story about a leading employer in rural Arkansas and a leading cultural influence in rural Arkansas--different entities in this context.
It's a shooting-death tragedy loaded with polarized and dysfunctional politics. And that's all a community needs to intensify what amounts in American society …
Gov. Sarah Sanders has opted to engage her real opponent, which is the people's constitutional authority to make their own laws.
If there is nothing to this talk that Asa Hutchinson might be interested in, and under consideration for, the presidency of the University of the Arkansas Syst…
In Sarah Sanders' Arkansas, public schools may no longer share materials that impart the known fact that America has a racist history with scars evident still.
One fact becomes clear in special counsel Robert Hur's finding that Joe Biden should not be criminally prosecuted for his transgressions with classified docume…
If you're sitting around not doing anything, you might invest a few minutes pondering whether it would be good or bad if former Gov. Asa Hutchinson became pres…
If you're scoring at home in the matter of the state Corrections Board versus Gov. Sarah Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin, make a note that the Correct…
I'll give you the one-two-three of it and then I'll tell you it adds to zero, which is the sum of most of our politics.
Republicans got their tails kicked by an old man they'd ridiculed as feeble. Then they responded with a bizarre young Alabama woman who parodied modern Republi…
Here are random remaining thoughts on the party primaries and judicial races Tuesday in Arkansas, which provided a weird experience typical of voting occasions…
"This is one of Trump's unique political gifts: He inspires such visceral hatred in his opponents that he provokes them to self-destruct." -- from a column by …
The big political news nationally Tuesday was that another moderate--nearly the last one--faded away. Meantime, the two most polarizing candidates imaginable f…
So this is the day. I've put it off as long as possible.
They badger me in the weekly retirees' class on politics to repeat the question. It is irksome. I can't seem to remember to do it.
The most hostile response ever to an assertion in this column? That would be to a sentence that America is not a Christian nation but a free-religion nation.
A reader suggested I pop a caffeine pill and watch the video of a "conversation" last week among the candidates for chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Donald Trump said odd things to and about Black people on Friday night. The Black people in the audience applauded. They laughed at his quip about only Black f…
Gov. Sarah Sanders has such an aversion to Medicaid, the federal-state partnership for poor people's health insurance, that she advocates putting our state's l…
I don't know of a better way to select judges than the absurd way we do it in Arkansas.
This is the season for people to show up on your front porch asking you to vote for them for a local judgeship.
"Donald Trump seems more sincere about his lies than Joe Biden does about his truth."
Did you ever see that cartoon by George Fisher in which Orval Faubus was speaking to an Arkansas General Assembly made up of faces all looking like Orval Faubu…
I've got it now. It took a while, but, finally, the insight of Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton on the method in Donald Trump's meaninglessness got through.
You look for encouraging developments where you can find them, even to the point of taking heart that Gov. Sarah Sanders deigned to talk that one time with mem…
There are at least three points to explore on the seemingly seismic matter of the special counsel choosing not to prosecute President Joe Biden on having class…
The border compromise negotiated by three U.S. senators--a Republican, a Democrat and an independent--was not perfect. And that's a redundant statement. Two wo…
We have a bit of a theme for columns this week. It's that people in Arkansas are rearing up a bit.
We might call it the anti-overreach movement, though "movement" might be an overreach of phrasing at this early juncture.
Arkansas is singing Gov. Sarah Sanders a Bill Withers song, going, "You just keep on using me 'til you use me up."
Last week the state Corrections Board hired a new member for Gov. Sarah Sanders' cabinet, which otherwise she's picked for herself, as is customary and, in a s…
The latest from the right-wing conspiracy theorists, by which I mean the modern mainstream Republican Party, is that nothing you see about this purported Taylo…
Advocates of an abortion-rights amendment in Arkansas now have permission from Attorney General Tim Griffin to fan out and seek your signatures on a petition t…
We languish in an American era of a double political whammy.
The practical truth is that justice is not blind, but politically partisan.
Attorney General Tim Griffin, on a bit of a losing streak in Pulaski Circuit Court, said in a television interview the other day that it's not required that th…
This is a rewrite. The advance text I wrote in the afternoon in expectation of what would happen in the New Hampshire Republican primary didn't quite hold up t…