Roberts: The Chief Makes History There will be days and days of analysis – some of it even important – of today’s historic Supreme Court...

My Call from No. 15 A guest post today from my Gallatin colleague Randy Simon. At this point in my life I like and appreciate my morning...

Corporations Really Are People While the nation holds its collective breath over the fate of Obamacare (hint, it’s going down) the...

Corruption at the Justice Department When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, as now seems likely, is held in contempt of Congress in the...

The (Almost) Case for Unilateral Action In September 1940, just in front of the election that would make Franklin Roosevelt the first and...

Not Guilty as Sin So the Rocket walks and baseball’s long twilight struggle with performance enhancing drugs slips slowly, slowly away,...

On the presidential campaign trail in 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain regularly invoked Theodore Roosevelt as his role model. “I count...

Skillful politicians, it is often said, make their own luck. They have – or develop – the instincts to act, speak or hold their tongue at...

It was nearly impossible to have a neutral feeling about Perry Swisher. If you expressed admiration for one of his ideas or newspaper...

Why is the state of Idaho in the liquor business and why does the Mayor of New York want to ban super-sized sugary drinks?  It’s a matter...

A little over one hundred years ago J. Pierpont Morgan ran much of the world’s business from an elegant office at 23 Wall Street in New...

Forty-three years ago this past Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers issued a terse statement that began with these words: “Guard and author...

Mark Twain is reported to have said, “It isn’t so astonishing the things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that...

I’m old enough to remember when the mailman brought LIFE magazine to our house. It was a big event every week. The magazine was a coffee...

The closed Idaho primary election was the big loser yesterday. Most Idahoans – maybe close to 80% of the eligible voters – voted with...

Idaho voters will find something new today if they make the effort to get to their neighborhood polling place and it’s going to be very...

I never saw Rogers Hornsby play baseball – he quit playing in 1937 – but I’m still pretty sure he was among the best right-handed hitters...

Google “Mitt Romney” today and the first thing that appears is “Mitt Romney bullying,” which says a lot about a lot of things. It may...

Harry Truman famously said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” I’ll offer the Johnson Corollary to Truman’s great one...

Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s attorney has his hands full. Idahoans who know Boise criminal defense attorney David Nevin, a quiet, well-spoken,...