Shutdowns old and new
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
With no end in sight to the government shutdown constricting Washington, D.C., it may well go on record as the longest in U.S. history.
That …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
With no end in sight to the government shutdown constricting Washington, D.C., it may well go on record as the longest in U.S. history.
That …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Every Idaho legislator and county commissioner — totaling 237 people — received email invitations to meet with Trump administration officials at the White House, including …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
As the centerpiece of state’s agricultural industry, the Idaho potato is iconic.
For many Americans, it’s Idaho’s only notable characteristic, a source of annoyance for …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Trump is normalizing all this; he is, to borrow
a phrase, “defining deviancy down.”
—Bret Stephens, conservative columnist
Disorder, chaos, instability, uncertainty, intemperate
statements …
By Justin Henney
Reader Contributor
Each year I am reminded by others’ resolutions that I too can put effort into self improvement. My youngest daughter, Vi, age 7, helps me …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Trump’s apparent economic success to date mostly reflects fortunate timing.
—The Economist 11/18/17
In a letter to the Moscow newspaper last month, Bill Tozer …
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 …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“We just can’t work with him because our base thinks he’s the Antichrist.”
—Barack Obama paraphrasing GOP leaders (8/25/16)
President Putin is the …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Many countries are shifting from a universal
civil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort.
—The Economist (11/19/6)
In 1992 Francis Fukuyama published a book …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
For those disposed to intellectual exploration in a time of national emotional havoc, a recent Reader issue offered a timely recommendation: read, or re-read, William …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.