By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The workman is not in harmony with his social position if he is not convinced that he has his deserts. —Emile Durkheim These people kill themselves slowly with alcohol...
“The sealed border was not just at the 38th parallel, but everywhere, in each person’s heart, blocking the past and choking off the future.”
—Suki Kim, Without You, There is No Us
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist If Western civilization is defined by religion and culture, then Mexico—with its Catholic heritage and historic ties to European monarchies—is unquestionably an outpost of “the West.” But for Trump...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Americans crossing the far western Canadian-American border pass by the Peace Arch. The inscriptions read: “Children of a Common Mother,” “Brethren Dwelling Together in Unity,” and, referring to the...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Protestants are going to have to accept the fact that we have many similarities with our Catholic brothers and sisters when it comes to how we have failed to...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist One would expect that in anticipation of meeting with the heads of NATO’s 29 nations, our so-called president would at least learn some basic facts about this nearly 70-year-old...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist After learning that New St. Andrews College now has permission to take over more of downtown Moscow, I thought I would check out its website. I had not done...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist One night several years ago I had a very vivid dream about my mother. I had invited her to my Moscow home, and she appeared in the front yard...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnis On the 42nd Anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh and the 47th Anniversary of Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Pot’s revolution would not have won power without the carpet-bombing...
By Reader Staff Teenagers today face increasingly dangerous situations at parties, no matter where they live. Bonner County is not exception. In an effort to increase parental awareness and to initiate dialogues with their...
