Some of the past century’s greatest fiction writers were unified in challenging the cultural desert created by mass commercial media. It is a …
Darrell Manning, who died last month at 94, was smack in the middle of Idaho’s hot and pivotal politics of the 60s. He served four terms as a …
The diagnosis was not a surprise - well, yes it was, because, like many men with a health issue, we try to deny it or delay treatment when everyone knows that "early detection" is critical to a cure.
Twenty five years ago, our world changed forever. Radical Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes, crashing them into the two towers of the …
For over 2000 years, the best practice in elections has allowed individuals to cast anonymous votes at polling booths observable by the public…
Get out and vote; just this time, you won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. —Donald Trum…
We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …
Proponents of abortion, and of Proposition 1 here in Idaho, want to steer the conversation toward vague concepts of healthcare, freedom, choic…
President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach. He wants the Postal Service to send mail ballots only to voters verified as American citizens. The Census Bureau has promoted a dubious report about thousands of noncitizens voting in 2020, when Trump lost. His Department of Homeland Security is claiming without providing evidence that 250,000 noncitizens are on the voter rolls in just four states. Voting by noncitizens is extremely rare. Trump's opponents say the Republican president and his allies are setting the stage for legal challenges to outcomes he may not like in the fall election.


