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Arkansas

History

The Driest State

How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.

Alice Driver Bitter Southerner Oct 2021 20min Permalink

Travel

Finders, Keepers

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Katherine LaGrave Afar May 2021 20min Permalink

Business

Walmart’s Company Town of Bentonville, Arkansas

Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.

Stephanie Farmer Jacobin Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Business Food Health

'If One Of Us Gets Sick, We All Get Sick'

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

Mya Frazier The Guardian Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Religion

The Two Americans

Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.

Sabrina Tavernise New York Times Aug 2017 35min Permalink

Crime

How a Daughter's Search for Her Biological Father Led Her to an Execution in Arkansas

Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”

Liliana Segura The Intercept Apr 2017 10min Permalink

Death of a Building

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

Paul Reyes Oxford American Apr 2013 25min Permalink

Science

The Thing With Feathers

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.

Wells Tower Outside Mar 2006 20min Permalink

The Invaders

A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

David Hill Grantland Apr 2012 25min Permalink

History

Combinations of Jacksons

The author of True Grit on growing up in Arkansas during World War II.

Charles Portis The Atlantic Dec 1969 Permalink

Arts Politics Media

Prodigal Son

Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.

Ariel Levy New Yorker Jun 2010 35min Permalink