It took state senators less than an hour on Tuesday to pass a “stand your ground” bill that would allow Arkansans to kill if they feel threatened, even if they could safely escape.
Austin Gelder
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Q&A with Angie Maxwell, author of ‘The Long Southern Strategy’
Author Angie Maxwell is the true ideal Southern woman, albeit the modern version: brilliant and accomplished, but not at all fragile. A mix of buttoned-up academic and in-the-moment political decoder, you might find her crunching polling data on campus in Fayetteville, or you can find her blowing everyone’s minds in the pages of The Washington Post, where earlier this month her explanation of “Why Southern white women vote against feminism” riled up more than 1,000 commenters. She’ll talk about her new book “The Long Southern Strategy” Thursday at the Clinton Center.
Safe schools
A truth all teachers know: If you want to see the secrets and shortcomings of any community, just take a peek inside its classrooms. You’ll find poverty, lack of education, substance abuse, unstable families and socioeconomic segregation. Children have no choice but to bear the brunt of social ills, making schools the easiest places to spot and measure our failings.
More guns than sense
Let’s be honest: It’s a tough time to be a gun safety advocate in Arkansas.