When the history is written of conservation politics in the 20th Century, I’m sure four Secretaries of the Interior will figure...

Valentin Berezhkov – that’s his photo at the top of this post – had quite a life and I’m confident my interview wasn’t on his Top Ten...

What we now think of as the modern White House staff dates back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before FDR – Woodrow Wilson,...

Elliot Richardson was the Attorney General of the United States when he resigned in 1973 rather than carry out an order he couldn’t agree...

St. Patrick’s Day has always been a bigger production in places like Boston, Chicago and Butte than in Dublin, Cork and Dingle. Good...

If you need any proof that the confirmation process for high officials of the United States government works about as well as Toyota’s...

For much of the 1950’s and 1960’s, this photo – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin together at Yalta in February 1945 – served as the iconic...

Apparently in the supercharged environment of today’s American politics the worst thing that can be said of someone is that they are…a...

The esteemed American historian James MacGregor Burns published an important and fiercely argued little book last year that received too...

Will Rogers famously said he belonged to no organized political party. He was a Democrat. The cowboy philosopher would find himself right...

I am tardy in making note of the passing of Larry Osgood, a long-time Idaho state government employee and, in the very best sense of the...

I’m betting most Argentines don’t think much of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 musical Evita. As one young Argentine woman – well-read,...

In his marvelous book, In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin speculates whether some folks are born with a gene that causes them to wander the...

A very big day today in Montevideo, Uruguay and you probably won’t read much about it in the U.S. A new president, a left of center...

The first significant naval battle of World War II took place not in the North Atlantic or the Mediterranean, but in the Rio de la Plata...

In the far northeastern corner of Argentina, where the border bumps up against Paraguay and Brazil, is one of the most spectacular sights...

Only the most die hard American sports fan is likely to recognize the name Luis Angel Firpo. In Argentina he is a national icon thanks,...

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is not really a movie star, she just plays one in the bizarre world of Argentine politics. As the first...

It is impossible, I think, to kneel down to eye level with a penguin and not be impressed – awed even – with power of ol’ Mother Nature...

I have always thought some of the world’s great scenery was in the American West. The northern Rockies in Glacier National Park in...