Philip Martin

Her crimes warrant scrutiny. Do they also give filmmakers permission to turn her humiliation into entertainment?

Some of us are still plenty steamed about being played for fools the first time around.

Psychologist J. Glen White helps Arkansans navigate political differences through Braver Angels, one conversation at a time.

There are three rubber balls in Savannah's life. One is orange, one is blue, and one is orange and blue. They are identical in size, composition and function. They cost exactly the same. They are the same brand. They are, for all practical purposes, interchangeable.

Election Day is an occasion for my ilk to deliver homilies. We urge readers to set aside their differences, remember how much we have in common, and be gracious about whatever happens. It is agreeable advice, easier to offer than to follow. So many of us regard our politics as expressions of who we are that disagreement can feel like a judgment on our worth. The harder proposition is that decency is not something we can reserve for people we consider decent.

"Arkansas Disasters" collects photographs and postcards of communities struck by calamity.

I don't make election predictions or endorse candidates. People make a living doing the former, some combing through data and explaining afterward why an outcome they described as unlikely was consistent with their expectations. I understand the distinction between a probability and a promise, but where I come from, a lost bet is a lost bet.

True crime draws an audience. Friends and families carry the stories long after the episodes end.

Mike Poe goes to court because he promised himself he would.

There is a compliment people pay certain horror movies that amounts to an insult to most others.

One of the things they say about golf is that it is a lifetime sport. This is held out as an inducement for others to "grow the game," i.e., recruit more members into their cult. While these people gloss over the financial implications of committing to golf, the promise is sound enough. You can keep playing golf long after you have exhausted pickup basketball options, and the handicap system allows you to remain a nuisance to stronger players.

I want to tell you about Ann Hornaday, who died Oct. 18 at 66.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the largest source for award-winning news and opinion that matters to you. Featuring up to the minute breaking news and the most in-depth Razorback, business, and political coverage in Arkansas.

Käthe Kollwitz’s memorial to Karl Liebknecht honors a grief that political disagreement cannot diminish.

Stay in one job long enough and you acquire tenure. People know what you can do, or what you have done, and give you the benefit of the doubt. You can have an unproductive week, miss a deadline, or turn in something less than your best work without being called to account. Your employer has seen you perform under pressure. You've accumulated a little grace.

Sean Harrison was a musician before he became a journalist, and he kept writing songs while earning his living with other kinds of sentences. The Fayetteville singer-songwriter joins his friend and occasional songwriting collaborator Philip Martin for this episode of “Sessions.”

Ordered destroyed, Murnau’s ‘Nosferatu’ survived to haunt cinema — and returns to the big screen at AMFA.

Years ago, when I flew more often, a congressman would occasionally turn up on the same flight to Washington. Leaving the hometown airport, he sat in coach with the rest of us. On the connecting flight, I would walk past him settled into first class. This happened more than once, and always made me smile. There's no reason to begrudge him a comfortable seat, though it was amusing to think he felt obliged to begin the journey as another working stiff. Perhaps upgrades or seat availability explain

"Yikes."

Stephen King’s first novel remains one of his strangest and most formally adventurous — a fractured story of humiliation, catastrophe and the explanations people invent once it is too late to change anything.