By Georgia EarleyReader Contributor During a CNN interview with Jake Tapper in January, Steve Miller, top adviser to the current administration, stated while discussing the potential U.S. annexation of Greenland and other military actions: ...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The first 12 months of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president have been a bonanza for historians. Comparisons and analogies abound, and the “history repeats itself” cliche is doing...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler complained that British propaganda worked better than its German counterpoint in World War I because the former portrayed the latter as savage brutes (“huns”) pillaging...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. One that did get...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Only a fool would try to keep pace with the chaos emanating from the wreckage wrought by President Donald Trump’s administration on the fabric of civil reality in the...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a lot to cover this week in the land of the Dumb, so let’s try to keep up. Last week, before the convicted felon and sexual abuser Donald...
By Jim Imholte Reader Contributor I grew up in North Idaho. I attended Southside Elementary from 1973 to 1978, where my principal was Jim Stoicheff, who was also an Idaho senator, elected as a...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Cultures as different as England post-1066 C.E. and Nazi Germany have manipulated myths and stories to substantiate their ideologies and shape their images. This practice is alive and well...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Auteur director Quentin Tarantino took some heat from certain quarters for the ending of his 2009 Nazi-Western revenge fantasy flick Inglourious Basterds. If you haven’t seen it yet (hugely...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor How do you make fun of one of the darkest chapters in world history? It’s a question comedy filmmakers have grappled with for decades. World War II, the Third...
