Being ‘woke’: Black Buddhists in America
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Every year at this time I write a column about Buddhism. The Buddha’s birthday is celebrated on different days depending on the country. In Japan it is always on...
Category: Opinion
Point/Counterpoint: SB 1159 & HB 296 — The ‘voter initiative’ bill
Corruption, corruption, corruption By Luke Mayville Reader Contributor Last Friday, the Idaho House of Representatives voted 40-30 to pass Senate Bill 1159, legislation that would essentially revoke our constitutional right to organize citizen ballot...
Poverty
By Alexandra Iosub Reader Contributor I feel like there’s a powerful social taboo in place that makes it difficult for Americans to talk about money in a productive way. At the root of this...
The new American socialists: Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Elizabeth Warren
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “I believe in markets — markets that work. Markets that have a cop on the beat and have real rules, and everybody follows them.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren Just as...
Misophonia: The rage is real
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Affection can be expressed by holding hands, offering a kind word or leaving a sweet note on the countertop. My personal favorite act of affection is when my boyfriend...
Sorting scientific facts from fiction
By Gabrielle Deubendorfer Reader Contributor I recently had a delightful meeting with somebody who had genuine doubts about climate change. Having seen the impact of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill on the Florida...
Undemocratic
By Daniel C. Radford Reader Contributor Idaho has a new political force on hand, Reclaim Idaho. And it looks like it’s making the elites upset. After we, the people, voted at over 60 percent...
Intellectual [intellect-shill]
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “It is the responsibility of intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a 1967 essay, “to speak the truth and expose the lies.” Regrettably, for some intellectuals, such a function —...
Rethinking ‘Green Book’
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor The film “Green Book” is currently riding a wave of financial and critical success. It recently won the Best Picture award at the 91st Oscars, and this, in turn,...
Government shutdown fallout hits home
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Contributor With the speed of today’s news cycle, our recent government shutdown — the longest in United States history — already seems like a distant memory. And now that...
