Tagged: Trump

Featured / Opinion

July 19, 2018

President Trump sinks to a new low in Helsinki

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion article written by Reader publisher Ben Olson.

When President Donald Trump stood next to Russian President Putin in Helsinki …

Nick Gier

July 12, 2018

Judge rules family separations “brutal and offensive”

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has quoted the Bible in support of his No Tolerance and Family Separation policies, but this passage undermines his case entirely: …

Nick Gier / Opinion

January 11, 2018

Trump, Israel, and Christian Zionism

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

Every grain of sand between the Dead Sea, the Jordan River
and the Mediterranean Sea belongs to the Jew [sic].
—Ed MacAteer, Christian …

News / News in Brief

July 20, 2017

Idaho voter data withheld from Trump commission

By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff

Following a lawsuit by the Idaho Democratic Party, Idaho Secretary of State Lawrence Denney announced this week he will not release voter information to President …

Featured / News / News in Brief

June 29, 2017

Budget proposal takes on PNW power

By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer

One of the many moneymaking ideas in President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget could end up directly affecting the utility bills of people in …

Featured / Nick Gier / Opinion

June 19, 2017

The Europeans pay more than their fair share

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

One would expect that in anticipation of meeting with the heads of NATO’s 29 nations, our so-called president would at least learn some basic facts …

Opinion

June 8, 2017

What our leaders are saying about climate change…

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

When President Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Paris Climate Accord last week, he created a heat wave of feedback …

Nick Gier / Opinion

February 25, 2017

Donald Trump’s Right-Wing European Allies: Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, and Danes Turn against Immigrants

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

Many countries are shifting from a universal
civil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort.
—The Economist (11/19/6)

In 1992 Francis Fukuyama published a book …

Featured

January 20, 2017

The Trump Transition: Idahoans head to D.C.

By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff

Not long after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Sandpoint resident Travis Thompson started prepping to attend the inauguration. A self-described conservative associated with …