I’d argue that ever modern American presidential election comes down to one fundamental question: do we change or do we continue? In...

It is not really true, as is often said, that history repeats. No historical analogy is ever 100 percent correct. What history does...

John Weaver, an experienced GOP political operative and former top advisor to John McCain, says his party’s presidential field is “the...

It’s raining in northeastern Montana today. A wet spring following a long winter. The water stands in the wheat and hay fields along U.S....

OK, I never thought I’d find a connection among the “greatest” heavyweight of all time, Franklin Roosevelt and the man now in the White...

They celebrated Jefferson Davis’s inauguration yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama. Actually, it was a day late. One hundred fifty years ago...

I only had the chance to see Ronald Reagan in the flesh a handful of times. I distinctly remember when he came to Idaho to campaign for...

Fresh from re-election a month earlier to an unprecedented third term, Roosevelt used one of his tremendously effective “fireside chats”...

There are no perfect historical parallels. Nothing is ever precisely like it was in another time. At best, history can help illuminate...

In 1943, Franklin Roosevelt made the long, dangerous journey to Tehran for a wartime conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin....

When the history is written of conservation politics in the 20th Century, I’m sure four Secretaries of the Interior will figure...

What we now think of as the modern White House staff dates back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before FDR – Woodrow Wilson,...

Former Idaho Governor and Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus has devoted his life of public service to finding the delicate sweet...

The assessment came in a major speech to a conference of U.S. Forest Service managers in Boise. While not a pessimistic assessment of...

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that ain’t so.” – Mark Twain OK, I admit it. I...