David Maraniss, an Associate Editor of The Washington Post, is just out with a completely sourced, deeply researched reporting job called...

A year ago this weekend Tucson, Arizona was at the center of the world. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a vibrant up-and-coming moderate...

Calvin Trillin has covered the civil rights movement, produced some of the best long form journalism in recent times for The New Yorker,...

Edward R. Murrow famously said of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy that he had not created the fear of Communism that swept the nation...

I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to travel a fair amount – Europe several times, South America, Canada – and after every trip...

On This city in the Sonoran Desert has been our adopted “second city” now for more than ten years. We have come to love the place,...

Noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has waded into the fray over eliminating federal funding for the Corporation for Public...

It was probably inevitable given our overheated politics. The Pima County, Arizona sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, has become the target – I...

My favorite presidential historian, Robert Dallek, as well as anyone has, caught the essence of last night’s remarkable speech in Tucson...

“Anger, hatred, bigotry” – the headline in the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald. “A disturbing story about American political culture” –...

Get to the bottom indeed. We all tend to measure the impact of big events by the closeness of personal connection. For me, this one is...

I’ll be speaking on Wednesday night at the Main Boise Library on the life and career of Idaho’s longest serving U.S. Senator, William E....

Jim Leach is on a mission. The former Republican Congressman from Iowa, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),...

For much of the 1950’s and 1960’s, this photo – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin together at Yalta in February 1945 – served as the iconic...