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Arkansas
August 6, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Immediately Trolled After Attack on Tim Walz
The Arkansas governor got an awkward photo reminder after attempting to smear Kamala Harris’s pick for vice president, Tim Walz.
August 1, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Worst Person You Know Says Trump’s Kamala Comment Makes Perfect Sense
Donald Trump doesn’t deserve defending after he questioned whether Kamala Harris is really Black.
July 23, 2024
Paige Oamek
Watch: Tom Cotton Flails When Asked About Kamala Harris “Coup”
The Arkansas senator struggled to explain MAGA’s new “coup” conspiracy after being reminded of his own party’s actions on January 6.
June 17, 2024
Ben Metzner
Tom Cotton Haunted by His Own Painfully Incorrect Trump 2020 Claim
The Trump V.P. wannabe is willing to do whatever it takes to get the gig—even ignore his own past warnings.
June 3, 2024
Talia Jane
V.P. Wannabe Tom Cotton Ducks Key Question on Trump Trial
Cotton is rushing to Donald Trump’s defense after his guilty verdict.
January 16, 2024
Jasper Craven
A Death at Walmart
Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences.
January 4, 2024
Tori Otten
Arkansas Has a New Abortion Ballot Proposal–and It’s Not as Great as It Seems
A new ballot measure proposal in Arkansas wants to protect abortion. But it’s more complicated than you think.
June 13, 2023
Grace Segers
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Content in Little Rock. For Now.
Her Trumpian history and culture warrior mentality are working in Arkansas. Does she have bigger things in mind?
March 9, 2023
Tori Otten
Iowa and Arkansas Hop on the Extremist GOP Bandwagon to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Kids
Republican legislators claim they’re protecting children. Meanwhile, they’re also passing bills to loosen child labor laws.
March 8, 2023
Prem Thakker
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Law Making Child Labor Easier
Save the children (or not).
March 31, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Republican Disinformation Campaign Behind Arkansas’s Vile Anti-Trans Law
Even before the vote was called, the bill’s supporters were given the floor to cast doubt on trans peoples’ lives.
June 4, 2020
Matt Farwell
The Militarization of the American Hometown
As police everywhere roll through neighborhoods with battlefield hardware, an Afghanistan vet’s family learns there’s no escaping war.
July 18, 2017
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Zachary Roth
The Real Voter Fraud
As Trump investigates “millions” of illegal votes, states are rushing to limit access to the ballot box.
May 1, 2017
Austin Sarat
The Overwhelming Evidence Against the Death Penalty
Arkansas' recent, gruesome executions are further proof that we'll never find a humane way to put people to death.
March 2, 2016
Steven Cohen
Hillary Clinton’s former home state goes to Hillary Clinton.
April 21, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
“Do You Understand That Your Baby Goes Away and Never Comes Back?”
Adoption is embraced in the Marshall Islands, but in the Ozarks, it means something very different. The tragic consequences of cultural misunderstanding.
April 13, 2015
Jeet Heer
Hillary Will Be Haunted by the Ghosts of Clinton Conspiracy Theories
April 1, 2015
Cristian Farias
Why Arkansas' Governor Rejected the Religious Freedom Bill
It was even more extreme than Indiana's
October 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
It Won't Be Obama's Fault When the Democrats Lose the Senate
August 5, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
GRAPH: Obamacare's Impact on the Uninsured, State by State
Where officials wanted it to work, it did
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