Opinion

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  EDITORIAL: The free Chinese

  Today at 3:02 a.m.

  CNN's headline Friday morning read: "No signs Trump and Xi resolved any thorny challenges." This may be good in at least one way: Taiwan.

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  COLUMNIST: Patel’s exploits are a serious risk to the FBI

  by BARBARA McQUADE Bloomberg Today at 3:00 a.m.

  "Don't embarrass the bureau." Among the unwritten rules of the FBI, upholding the reputation of the organization has been paramount since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, who is reputed to have coined th…

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  OTHERS SAY: A constitutional end-run

  by The Boston Herald Today at 2:59 a.m.

  The U.S. Constitution is not an a la carte menu. States can't pick and choose the amendments and clauses they'll abide by and those they won't.

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  EFAs make private education possible, even in rural Arkansas

  by Rebecca McGee Special to the Democrat-Gazette Today at 2:57 a.m.

  Rex Nelson's April 26 column suggested that southeast Arkansas communities like mine derive no benefit from the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program created by the LEARNS Act. I beg to differ.

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  OPINION | REX NELSON: Back to Entergy’s early roots in Arkansas

  by Rex Nelson Today at 2:56 a.m.

  In Wednesday's column, I wrote about Entergy Corp.'s plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Hot Spring County to replace the company's Lake Catherine Unit 4, which will cease operations in…

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  Letters

  Today at 2:49 a.m.

  Individual education

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  Flashback

  Today at 2:48 a.m.

  Editor's note: This letter was originally published 15 years ago today.

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  OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: ‘The Promise of America’ and the crisis of shared civic language

  by Philip Martin Today at 2:45 a.m.

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  The Southern Fried Podcast: Talking Public Education with Dr. Glen Fenter

  by Rex Nelson May 15, 2026

  This week’s episode is the first of a two part series in which Rex Nelson talks with Marion School District Superintendent Glen Fenter about public education.

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  Doggone, they help

  May 15, 2026

  Old joke: You feed, bathe and house a dog. The dog looks at you and says, "You've taken care of all my needs. You must be a god." You feed, water and house a cat. The cat looks at you and says, "You'…

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  OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Breaking the monopoly of the American Bar Association

  by Robert Steinbuch May 15, 2026

  For more than a century, the American Bar Association has functioned as the de facto national gatekeeper of legal education. Its accreditation decisions effectively determine which law schools count …

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  Data transfer

  May 15, 2026

  You know a topic is the talk of the town when two articles appear on the same day on the same general topic in the same newspaper. But data centers are front and center these days. People are talking…

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  To build a healthier Arkansas, start with better data

  by Michael Nino Special to the Democrat-Gazette May 15, 2026

  Arkansas' health challenges are not a matter of perception. They are visible in the numbers.

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  Careful what you hope for on gerrymandering

  by Dana Kelley May 15, 2026

  Last week after my column about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, one of the comments to the online edition summed up one of the biggest problems we face in politics today.

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  Letters

  May 15, 2026

  Scientific evidence