I’ve long been a believer that the best defense against what is often referred to as “the nefarious influence of money in politics” is...

The Washington Post had a fascinating and yet difficult to read story a few days ago about how an airplane accident shaped the modern...

Alaska says “goodbye” today to the guy the state legislature once voted “the Alaskan of the Century.” I’m betting the ceremony in the...

There is a great line in the 1972 film The Candidate starring the young Robert Redford. In the film, Redford’s character is an aspiring...

I confess that I hadn’t been following all that closely the controversy in New York City over the proposed construction of a Muslim...

For as long as I can remember Idaho has had a running debate about whether to really invest in a robust program of tax compliance in the...

Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator in the country’s history, died Monday night in a back country plane crash in Alaska, the...

By 1919, Butte, Montana had fully made the transition from mining camp to industrial city. It is no exaggeration to say that the copper...

In his classic memoir – This House of Sky – Ivan Doig writes of the country in the very middle of Montana, the country where he grew up,...

As far as I know, none of the guys in the photo nearby – a ball club from Hailey, Idaho in about 1910 – ever made a baseball name for...

I’m convinced that fly fishing – much like politics – is a simple matter of hope overcoming experience. You can pursue the wily cutthroat...

It has been said that Butte, Montana is where the frontier intersected with the Industrial Age. If that’s true, then just down the road...

In 1943, Franklin Roosevelt made the long, dangerous journey to Tehran for a wartime conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin....

Everyone showed up last night at National’s Park in the center of our political universe – Washington, D.C. – to see a star perform, but...

Family, food, fabrics, footwear. Set it all in Milan in a fabulous villa – the Medicis would kill (maybe they did) for this place – and...

You don’t have to read the Wall Street Journal every day to know that the economy is barely struggling out of the Great Recession....

Truth be told, I do miss it, but what I miss is so long gone as to be an historic relic. The TV news of CBS from the 1950’s to the 1970’s...

I admit I have been a late adopter of the wondrous world of Mad Men, the AMC Sunday night show that has done so much for the early...

How does an ultra-wealthy financial backer of new British Prime Minister David Cameron connect to the dusty miners in the nearby photo?...

Both Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt began their presidency by inheriting a country in economic meltdown. Both were Washington, D.C....