By Julia Angwin for ProPublica The FBI’s much-discussed request to Apple can seem innocuous: Help us extract six weeks of encrypted data from the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, an employee of San Bernardino’s...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “Sanders would be a GOP dream. America will never go socialist.” —Bill O’Reilly The last stop on my month-long trip to Europe last September was London. The London papers...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re back, again! In this article, I was planning on covering a subject near and dear to my heart: The planets of our solar system. I could gush about...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff It’s hard to imagine a more bittersweet swan song for Studio Ghibli than “When Marnie Was There.” Founded in 1985, the Japanese animation studio has arguably produced more masterpieces...
By Drake the Dog Reader Pet Columnist Where am I taking my humans today? On this beautiful sunny day, I’m strolling downtown, doing my beat box thing and Mr. and Missus are humming “99...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Contributor It has been nearly six months since lightning sparked a fire in the sagebrush steppe along the Idaho-Oregon border northwest of Silver City. The so-called Soda Fire was intense,...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Do you long for the days of swords, suits of armor and general medieval ballyhoo? This Saturday, the Sandpoint Library will be hosting a demonstration featuring several medieval societies...
By Louie de Palma Reader Road Warrior Universal Fact number 784: People love repetition and complete lack of differentiation. People enjoy eating the same foods every day, watching the same commercials over and over...
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching eventually wore out their...
By Sarah Klintworth Reader Contributor One of the most wonderful aspects of human nature is our ability to respond when we see another human being in need. Anyone who watched TV through the ‘90s...
