For over 2000 years, the best practice in elections has allowed individuals to cast anonymous votes at polling booths observable by the public…
Some of the past century’s greatest fiction writers were unified in challenging the cultural desert created by mass commercial media. It is a…
Pushing back against authority is human nature. But like many aspects of “human nature,” what separates us from the beasts is our ability to m…
In this week’s Wyoming Republican Primary, the Cowboy State took a hint from Idaho and booted most of its “state freedom caucus” members.
This is awkward. Normally skeptical of any politician, I am doubly so when they push their ideas as doggedly as President Trump. But, dang it,…
There is a place where religious intermarriage is now praised, even touted as a positive sign of a better future. Such an unlikely and rare at…
My distaste for the “populist angry in-your-face” Republicanism that has crashed the Idaho Republican Party is no secret. But do not mistake t…
Did you know red kidney beans, cassava, elderberries and even some wild Andean potatoes are toxic if not prepared properly? Thorough cooking i…
All the excitement surrounding the 250th anniversary of America’s independence is now in the past. It was the Revolutionary War, of course, wh…
Conservative Idahoans are bewildered and leaderless right now. The loudest voices on the right claim Idaho is purple, a hair’s breadth from be…
