The ultimate danger of the Trump presidency, even beyond the potentially catastrophic consequences of the recent abandonment of northern...

On April 6, 2017 President Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on airfields in Syria in response to Syrian dictator Basher...

In his masterful biography of Richard Nixon the journalist John A. Farrell recounts the last days – it was the summer of 1974 – of...

Idaho has had its share of political scandals and usually they involve money or sex — or, not infrequently, stupidity. The state’s...

The shambolic, incoherent, incompetent, lie-infested and often just plain crazy foreign policy of Donald Trump was on full display in...

It is difficult to escape the feeling that the United States has reached an inflection point: mass shootings now a regular, sickening...

(This piece originally appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune.) It is hardly news that in the space of less than a week 28 hard right...

This piece originally appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———– Sometimes, what appears to be a minor change in political direction...

One of the great ironies of modern American conservatism is that the party that claims to champion “limited government” is really in a...

I have always thought that Bill Bradley, the one-time United States senator from New Jersey, could have been a great president....

Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is about to get his moment in the wacky spotlight of U.S. Senate confirmation politics. Barring some last-minute...

So, the Mueller report is released, but not really released. We have a four-page summary written by a guy who owes his job to the guy who...

The journalist and social critic H.L. Mencken was made for the Trump era. Unfortunately Mencken, a guy given to using words such as...

The only conceivable path Donald Trump has to re-election next year is to continue to fire up faithful fans by invoking his dystopian...

Idaho Sen. Jim Risch became chairman of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee last week and as nearly his first act he bashed the...

Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I...

My weekly column from the Lewiston Tribune ———– In the wake of the latest revelations about the president of the United States the extent...

“The nation has become spectacularly meaner, to the point that George H. W. Bush is likely to be remembered as the last President of the...

My weekly column in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———- In his famous Harper’s magazine essay about American politics, the Pulitzer Prize...

“Crass self-delusion is when you start with an ideological premise that you believe to be true even though it isn’t and then draw...