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 …
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 …
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 — …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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