Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has the unwelcome distinction of having lost a U.S. Senate race to a dead man. It happened in...

Democrat Edward P. Costigan had a short, but extremely productive and influential tenure representing Colorado in the United States...

When the Tamarack Ski Resort in Valley County, Idaho opened back in December of 2004 no less a newspaper of record than the New York...

The headline above is spread across the front page of this morning’s Seattle Times. The paper notes that $40 million in political...

The United States has been engaged over the last 20 years or so in a systematic disinvestment in higher education. It may be the least...

When I became chief of staff to the Governor of Idaho in 1991 it was a case of good news and bad news. It was an honor and responsibility...

Sen. Bronson M. Cutting was among the most interesting men to have ever sat in the United States Senate. New York born into a wealthy...

The modern Senate has its problems to say the least, including too much blind partisanship and what many scholars see as a growing lack...

The great western artist Charlie Russell – that’s him in a tent with a paint brush – never, as far as I know, contemplated a political...

Tomorrow night – October 5 – I’ll be talking about some of the most significant history of the Supreme Court at the Library at Cole and...

The rap against Bobby Cox, the 25 year manager of the Atlanta Braves, has always been that he won only one World Series. Never mind the...

Sheridan County, Montana borders on North Dakota to the east and the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan to the north. It is about...

One of my great baseball memories was watching a batting practice session in Arizona several years ago. It was just one of those...

The exhibit – developed by the Museum – premiered earlier this year at Ellis Island in New York, home of the National Memorial to the...

The Pew Research Center for People and the Press is out with a new survey about where we’re going for news and why and at least one of...

I don’t like the Yankees or the Dodgers. Never have. But I gotta say a word or two about the class act that recently announced he was...

Tim Egan, who writes an on line column for the New York Times website, had a marvelous piece earlier this month. He called it “My Summer...

“The moral test of government,” Hubert Humphrey once said, “is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the...

You wonder if a guy as gifted and rumpled as Edwin Newman could find a job in television these days. He might be considered too erudite,...

Ronald Reagan defined and built the modern Republican Party. No one would accuse the former president of being anything but a card...