Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist 1. You open your device, check the wifi connection and scroll to find your preferred social media account. Upon its selection, your screen is flooded with photos of family...
Category: Opinion
A Grain of Salt: The shame game
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Okay world, that’s enough. I’m not quite certain where it began — though I suspect there are some strong roots in the Old Testament — but this culture of...
Sign your name, save our schools
By Luke Mayville, Reclaim Idaho co-founder Special to the Reader For the next 40 days, Idahoans across the state will do something they’ve never done before: Add their electronic signatures to a citizen ballot...
‘When you protect everybody you protect yourself’
By Cynthia Dalsing Reader Contributor I wanted to write this article when I heard that more than 400 health care workers have died from COVID-19. This struck me — these were my colleagues, the...
Emily Articulated: Lessons of the Sorting Hat
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist When things get hard to process in the real world, I often escape to fantasy worlds for respite, coming out on the other side of a magical book, podcast...
A few thoughts… on patriotism
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist In the film Night at the Museum II, museum guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and come-back-to-life Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) lead enlivened historical characters in a battle against evil...
The language of freedom
By Katie Botkin Reader Contributor Would you be shocked if I told you that conservatives and liberals speak different languages, in an almost literal sense? It’s true. There are certain words and phrases each...
Point/counterpoint:
TO REFORM OR NOT By Bill Litsinger Reader Contributor Some might say that the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. The camel in...
Emily Articulated: Gaslighting
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Gaslighting is a subtle, yet powerful series of rhetorical tactics used by people in order to dominate, control and create doubt in the minds of others. In psychology, gaslighting...
Jumping in
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I walked into the water up to my ankles and heard that all-too-familiar voice in my head: “What are you thinking?” The voice is familiar because I’ve heard it...
