“The Republican states are in strong shape,” Donald Trump said last month. “I don’t know — is that luck or is that talent?” The president...

My political education began in the 1970s in South Dakota. An uncle served in the legislature as a Republican and later a top aide to a G...

“A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire,” then-President George W. Bush said in 2005. “If caught early it might be extinguished with limi...

More than 80 years ago, spurred on by sportsmen worried about creeping politicizing of management of the state’s wildlife resources, Idah...

You may have heard a number of references this week to the Senate impeachment trials of two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Cl...

In his scathing takedown of the modern Republican Party – How the Right Lost Its Mind – the conservative former Wisconsin radio talk show...

The Trump defending Idaho congressional delegation was reminded yet again this week of the dangers involved in shielding a president who ...

Idaho has had its share of political scandals and usually they involve money or sex — or, not infrequently, stupidity. The state’s politi...

The half-life of a failed political campaign is normally about 15 minutes. You lose and you’re forgotten pretty quickly even though the l...

Republican Congressman Greg Walden represents a vast swath of Oregon in the House of Representatives. His huge district stretches from th...

The shambolic, incoherent, incompetent, lie-infested and often just plain crazy foreign policy of Donald Trump was on full display in rec...

(This piece originally appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune.) It is hardly news that in the space of less than a week 28 hard right Re...

Idaho Republican elected officials, with a couple of notable exceptions, seem unable to control, let alone influence their party. In poli...

Nine days ago Robert Mueller III, the decorated former Marine Corps officer, the former assistant attorney general who prosecuted Panaman...

My father used to joke that every little town has its town character; an odd, interesting or off-the-wall person who everyone in town und...

In his brilliant little book, On Tyranny, the historian Timothy Snyder offers citizens in a modern democracy 20 lessons from 20th century...

On July 7, 1938, three avid Idaho outdoorsmen — R.G. Cole, Homer Martin and Dan McGrath — walked into the Idaho Secretary of State’s offi...

By all appearances Idaho State Senator Brent Hill, the Rexburg Republican who is the president pro tem of the state senate, is a thoughtf...

“The past is never dead,” the great novelist William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun. “It’s not even past.” In the spirit of Faulkner...

My weekly column from the Lewiston Tribune ———– In the wake of the latest revelations about the president of the United States the extent...