"Although Trump’s critics are often loathe to “give the devil his due,” this foreign relations accomplishment by the Trump Administration should be allowed to shine," says Robert Lee Long.

Here's hoping that Collierville Schools will realize the press wasn't out to be its enemy in covering a high school football game. Only providing reporting of high school sports as we've always done.

One convention down, one to go, and one question on many people’s minds: Who’s going to win the presidential election?

Broken heart syndrome is defined by the Mayo Clinic as a temporary heart condition that’s often brought on by stressful situations and extreme emotions.

We're used to large-scale alterations underway on sites Downtown, but landscapes are also changing at some promising and high-profile properties farther East. 

Reader suggests a 'Votes for Bertha' campaign in honor of my mother, who faced down resistance to register to vote 56 years ago in Panola County. She would be so pleased.

Evers was elected the first African-American mayor in Mississippi post-Reconstruction and he would mount an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid to become Mississippi’s first Black governor in 1971.

Two online quizzes want to help you find out which party is truly aligned with your beliefs. One questionnaire is better than the other, but both might surprise you.

Isn’t it a shame that to battle the novel coronavirus, a major campaign has not yet been launched unilaterally and on a global scale?

While thousands considered Steve a friend, it never felt like thousands when you visited with him. It was just you and Steve. He listened to you, you the homeless, you the wealthy, you the mover and shaker and you the one being moved and shaken.

Those who are showing up for the pandemic version of Elvis Week are getting a first look at new interactive exhibits – "Elvis Movie Match Game," "Elvis Yourself" – that will become permanent fixtures at the complex across from Graceland.

Loosening the residency requirement would make it easier for Memphis to create racial diversity in the ranks of MPD with smart, targeted recruiting. But in a perplexing vote, the Memphis City Council decided to remove the residency referendum from the Nov. 3 ballot.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is counting on his choice of running mate Kamala Harris to bring in new and reenergized voters in key battleground states.

Many organizations are working on worthwhile causes. Many of these organizations are nonprofits, often with limited funding and staff, who are looking for volunteers to serve as advocates.

Richard Halliburton spent his short life “living poetry instead of writing it.”

When our world turned upside down on Jan. 25, 2002, Pastor Steve Montgomery and the Idlewild Presbyterian congregation not only fed our souls, but also our bodies.

Over the course of a year I saw first hand the renovation and reselling of homes in my neighborhood, and I saw the people who came with it. After all, I was one of them. Who is this “New Memphis” for?

Stranger things have happened. Heck, Ronald Reagan carried New York – twice. 

There will be a vaccine for COVID-19. In the meantime, we will continue to suffer from chronic, fatal stupidity.

Some find it galling that the City Council pulled back a public referendum on the police residency question. I dunno, I’d say the point of representative democracy is to elect officials and ask them to deliberate and make informed judgments.

The data on inducing COVID-19 immune responses are promising, but it is not clear yet whether this will result in limited protection, modest protection or complete protection from either infection or disease. As we know from influenza vaccines, even partial protection may have benefit.

A majority of Americans trust Dr. Anthony Fauci to tell the truth about the pandemic. But Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Manny Sethi, hoping to impress President Trump, says Fauci needs to go. 

The party with which I have self-identified for much of my adult life, the Republican Party, has failed to live up to its “big tent” credo of inclusiveness and belonging.

The pandemic presents everyone with unique and unprecedented options. No school district has ever decided such matters, and there may not be a “one-size-fits-all” direction to take in this.

It’s a community service to put election stories outside the paywall. And yet, bluntly, our decision also comes with a cost. Because producing this news is expensive.