N. Idaho Women’s March 2020
By Reader Staff Looking ahead to what’s sure to be a critical election in 2020, the N.Idaho Women are preparing for their fourth annual Women’s March, set to take place Saturday, Jan. 18 in...
Tagged: politics
Methinks thou dost protest too much
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil,” 1886 The movement, like all social movements, started...
Busting some myths about Portugal’s greatest hero
By Nick Gier Reader Contributor About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco da Gama, the navigator...
Looking back on the 2019 legislative session
By Sen. Jim Woodward Reader Contributor Dear friends and neighbors of Legislative District 1, The first regular session of Idaho’s 65th Legislature is complete. Spanning 95 days, the session was 15 days longer...
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...
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 —...
Cyrus the Great versus Trump the Small
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Joining Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s clueless press secretary, 55 percent of white evangelicals believe that God has sent Donald Trump to save the nation. Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of...
The controversy over third term abortions
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “There is zero place for politicians to be involved in these very complicated medical decisions.” — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Out of fear that the current Supreme Court may repeal Roe v....
Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “Economic justice would require a land where men will not take necessities to give luxuries to the few.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Many conservatives today, in contrast to 60...
