Dumb of the week
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Popcorn sales spiked last week as two of the biggest toolbags in national politics decided to stage a cringe-inducing national breakdown. It was like watching …
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Trump is wading into the Rubicon
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The past two or so weeks have to be among the bizarrest in U.S. living memory. It’s hard to even know where to begin. On …
Nazis and nonviolence
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Contributor
In 1939, Nazi officials established gas chambers and began murdering tens of thousands of German citizens they considered “unfit.” The victims of the so-called “T-4” …
Pronatal, anti-children
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Far-right leaders who claim to model themselves after America’s Founding Fathers are now taking on the role of the nation’s absent fathers by attempting to …
The growing hunger
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
“For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.”
— Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner
There is, perhaps, no worse …
Big talk
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
One of the unexpected benefits of living through what may be the wholesale collapse of the United States’ civil, political and economic life is that …
Sandpoint’s ‘signal fire’
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Demonstrators filled downtown Sandpoint on Saturday, April 5, carrying hundreds of colorful signs protesting the Trump administration’s recent mass federal layoffs and funding cuts to …
Fake news and the rule of law
By Justin Henney
Reader Contributor
I wonder if Donald Trump goes to bed at night and is surprised at how easy it is for him to sell much of the …
Do you believe in the Constitution?
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Staff
The U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, is a brief instructional manual, sketching out a federal government, what it can and cannot do — a barebones …
Anti-fascist films that hit just right
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Publisher’s note: This article contains spoilers.
Perhaps it was Elon Musk’s Hitler salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Maybe it’s the endless waves of authoritarian …
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